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

Tue Mar 13 22:16:20 UTC 2012

> Yes, the economics of routing are strange, and the lack of any real
> strictures in the routing tables are testament to the observation that
> despite more than two decades of tossing the idea around we've yet to
> find the equivalent of a "route deaggregation tax" or a "route
> advertisement tax" or any other mechanism that effectively turns the
> routing space into a form of market that imposes some economic
> constraints on the activity.

among other things, i suspect that the shadow of telco settlements makes
us shy away from this.

randy