Re: An informal survey... round II

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

William Herrin wrote:
> On 8/30/07, John Curran <jcurran () mail com> wrote:
> > I.E.  If at some time unknown around 2010, ISP's stop receiving
> > new allocations from their RIR, and instead use of many smaller
> > "recycled" IPv4 address blocks, we could be looking at a 10x to
> > 20x increase in routes per month for the same customer growth.
>
> John,
>
> Why should we announce tiny recycled blocks? If there is a /16 in the
> swamp in which half the space is free but its all /24's, why wouldn't
> wouldn't we allocate all the free /24's to a single entity and
> instruct the entity to announce it as a "holey" /16? The existing /24
> holders will override (punch holes in) the /16 for their /24's.

And when they withdraw the more specific or you glop them together in
your fib in the name of agregation a 3rd party gets all their traffic?
I'm sure that will work really well.

> Regards,
> Bill Herrin