Did CIDR teach us nothing? was: Re: [address-policy-wg] 2006-01 Discussion Period extended until 19 June 2007 (Provider Independent (PI) IPv6 Assignments for End User Organisations)

On Wed, 23 May 2007, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:

> Sascha,
>
> Sascha Lenz wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> P.S.: Anyone got any recent numbers about the percentage of PI
>> announcements in the table vs. PA announcements + deaggregates?
>>
> that's probably not the fully adequate answer, but I considered the
> info in the following two slides (page 9 and 10) as very interesting
> in this context:
>
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-54/presentations/RIPE_NCC_Statistics.pdf
>
> The bottom line is that the # of PI assignments has (considerably)
> surpassed the number of PA assignments since 2003, and that the load on the
> routing table for PI is thus bigger than for PA, although the *percentage* of
> PI space as compared to PA is approx. 2%.
>
> Or, the other way 'round, we use more than 50% of (additional) routing table
> slots for some 2% of address space (PI) and less than 50% for some 98% of PA.

Are there similar statistics in the other RIR area?  If the picture is 
similar we have in RIPE region, then we have think over PI address 
policy....

Only my 2 cents....

Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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