Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

Tue Mar 13 17:27:13 UTC 2012

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:
> I'm hard pressed in my head to rationalize how maintaining software for
> the next 50 years on a few billion or so boxes is cheaper in the global
> sense than adding memory to perhaps half a million routers.

For a one-order of magnitude increase in "routes," (upper bound of
$30B/year the BGP way) it may or may not be. For a four orders
increase ($30T/year) it's self-evidently cheaper to change software on
the billion or so boxes. How many "routes" would a system improvement
that radically reduced the cost per route add?

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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