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Bill Woodcock wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote: Actually, your memory is incomplete. Wasn't it Deering who did the analysis that it would actually _decrease_ the _global_ table to mere hundreds, but increase the internal routing tables of large carriers? And didn't the analysis show that the maximum routing table of those large carriers was still in the few thousand range? Today's routing table reports show 167203 and 171237 respectively. Certainly we're much worse off now! And given the perspective of another decade of history, I'd argue that without the incentive to join IXs, we still have the problem that most "ISPs that matter" aren't connected to _any_ IX. (Noted as well by Paul Vixie in an earlier message.) -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
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