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Re: BGP-4+

Tony Bates <tbates@cisco.com> Thu, 19 December 1996 00:35 UTC

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To: Brandon Black <photon@nol.net>
Cc: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>, "John W. Stewart III" <jstewart@metro.isi.edu>, 6bone@isi.edu, dkatz@cisco.com, bgp@ans.net
Subject: Re: BGP-4+
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From: Tony Bates <tbates@cisco.com>
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 Brandon Black <photon@nol.net> writes:
  * 
  * Famous last words :)
  *
Perhaps, but just a few data points as seen on a well connected router
this morning. 

Number of ASes in routing system:                 1897

Number of ASes announcing only one prefix:         773 

So we have quite way to go yet. If you couple this with RFC1930 and
the use of private AS space when appropriate I think we have a lot of
life yet before we need to think about introducing a larger AS/RD
space and the backwards compatability issues associated with this or
introducing another protocol.

		--Tony

P.S. Some of us still believe a 32-bit address will hold us for a
while yet but this is a different issue ;-).
 
  * Bill Gates I think once said something along the lines of "nobody will
  * _ever_ need more than 640 kilobytes of main memory"
  * 
  * And somebody (some whole group of bodies) once thought that a 32-bit IP
  * address would hold off for along time....
  * 
  * Just food for thought...
  * 
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