[rrg] Small v Large networks - 1 solution for both, 2 separate solutions etc.

Eliot Lear lear at cisco.com
Tue Oct 28 23:58:08 PDT 2008


Hi Robin,
>                  Eliot's suggestion (as I understand it) to exclude
>                  larger end-user networks from the (presumably)
>                  renumbering based solution for smaller networks
>                  would still leave many "smaller" networks way too
>                  big for "routine" renumbering.
>    

Again, let's separate the problem from the solution.  To put it another 
way, home and SMB networks really don't even have an option today to be 
multihomed (at least not at the network layer), and so whatever growth 
we're seeing today in the routing table is strictly that of larger 
institutions, and related traffic engineering and (to a lesser extent) 
disaggregation to protect large prefixes.

If one solution can fit all, all the better.  One is better than two, 
all other things being equal.  Whether they are or not is a fair question.

Regards,

Eliot


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