[rrg] Consensus call: Reject proposed strategy F?

[David Conrad]

Brian,

On Dec 31, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> Adding more prefixes will hasten the inevitable.
> Exactly. Thus far, since BGP4 was deployed, the size of the DFZ has
> grown one order of magnitude less than the public Internet as a whole.

I'm curious: how do you measure the size of the public Internet as a  
whole?

> That's mainly a result of policy constraints on prefix length and
> utilisation. If selfishness had ruled, we'd be vastly worse off by  
> now.

As much as I'd like to attribute a lack of selfishness to Internet  
service providers and their customers, I suspect a more accurate  
answer is that most folks haven't felt a need to multi-home (or  
couldn't justify the cost/complexity).  Yet.  I have a sneaking  
suspicion that will change when folks discover that all their  
communications, business and/or home monitoring, entertainment, etc.  
services are critically dependent on their Internet service and new  
products/services are made available that make multi-homing easier/ 
more cost effective.

Regards,
-drc