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Re: [rrg] IPv4 & IPv6 routing scaling problems

"Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder@wisc.edu> Thu, 04 February 2010 04:18 UTC

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From: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder@wisc.edu>
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Subject: Re: [rrg] IPv4 & IPv6 routing scaling problems
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> Joel, in (msg05925), you wrote:
>> 
>> The IPv4 Internet works. The routers, and the routing system, cope
>> with the current pressures. To my way of looking at things, the
>> question is how will the Internet routing system cope with growth.
>> But, definitionally, there really is not that much growth left in
>> IPv4.

As an operator, I would agree with this, but I fear it only to be 
true until prefixes start having substantial resale value.  At that
point, slicing and dicing would really begin once the money starts 
flowing.

The RIR's appear to me to be gearing up for this to some degree.

Dale

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