Re: concerns about CLNP

[John Curran <[e-mail]>]

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] From: Frank Kastenholz <[e-mail]>
] Subject: Re: concerns about CLNP
] Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 09:52:21 -0400

] > [From: [e-mail]]
] > Have there been any copmrehensive analysis done about exactly when we think
] > the IP address space will really be exhausted or routing will collapse upon
] > itself?  I've heard lots of people do numbers off the top of their heads -- 
] > are these numbers in the neighborhood?
]
] This work has been done, at least as far as address space exhaustion
] is concerned. Frank Solensky started tracking and making these predictions
] over two years ago. He periodically updates and publishes the information.
] You can reach him at [e-mail].

Effectively, we are already in address exhaustion, and the consequential
increase in routing entries in the routing tables due to class C usage.
The recently announced rfc1366 and rfc1367 documents specify multiple 
C assignments (up to 16) for organizations that would have previously 
used a class B address.  Recent NACR reports from Merit indicate that
many blocks of C addresses are now announced.

What remains to be seen is how great CIDR's aggregation will be, and how 
much entropy we'll see when organizations change their network providers.

/John