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Re: BGP-4+

Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com> Thu, 19 December 1996 00:20 UTC

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To: Brandon Black <photon@nol.net>
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Subject: Re: BGP-4+
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 16:02:38 PST
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
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Brandon,

> > To answer your question, it doesn't look like we'll have shortage of 
> > ASs any time soon. So, it is not clear if there is a need for variable
> > length RDs.
>  
> Famous last words :)

Yes, indeed :-)

> Bill Gates I think once said something along the lines of "nobody will
> _ever_ need more than 640 kilobytes of main memory"

Study done by Ramesh Govindan and Anoop Reddy (govindan@isi.edu,
areddy@isi.edu) shows that new domain pops up every 12 hours. That is
~700 domains per year. If the consumption rate of AS space stays
comparable to what we have today, then ~7,000 domains per 10 years...

Yakov.

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