[address-policy-wg] 2009-04 New Policy Proposal (IPv4 Allocation and Assignments to Facilitate IPv6 Deployment)

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Max Tulyev wrote:

> Seriously, in that time hardware will become capable of carrying that 
> easy.

What timeframe is that?

10 years ago, the state of the art core routing platforms were capable of 
a few hundreds of thousands of FIB routes, today it seems to be 1-2M for 
the more expensive platforms. If you're talking about 2020 then by then 
3-4M might be working well, but you'd still spend a lot more than than 
needed in converging a network with that many prefixes.

For the good of the Internet, let's not put more prefixes in DFZ than 
needed.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se