North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:17:52 BST, "E.B. Dreger" said: > 3. Establish guidelines on what is "acceptable" table size, CPU > utilization, etc., and then decide how to get there. Oh, that one's EASY. The global routing table is hereby capped at 125K routes. After that, if you want a route, you have to pay somebody to give up theirs. Problem solved ;) This will have some advantages - it will make companies that want to multi-home calculate the actual benefit of doing so ("we should multihome" becomes "it would cost an estimated $nnK a year in downtime/unreachability/lost sales") so they know how much they want to bid for a routing table entry. For many companies, it may not actually make as much business sense to multihome as they thought. ISPs will have a new thing to market - premium services to enhance reliability and uptime without a route announcement (more aggressive marketing of multihoming to 2 POPs of the same ISP for a discount off the normal price for 2 pipes?) In the dot-bombed crash, a large number of companies will probably be willing to sell off their route for a quick infusion of cash. route squatters will probably not be as big an issue as domain squatters. Disadvantages? ARIN and company are unpopular enough without acting as a commodity trade market for buying and selling routes. And the SEC will of course be on the lookout for insider trading in route futures - expect investigations the first time somebody shorts on a future. ;) It would be a strange new world - but at least the routing table wouldn't be growing. ;) /Valdis
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