[address-policy-wg] Source of routing table growth

Sander Steffann wrote:

>> IETF can do nothing unless ISPs of RIPE and other RIRs accept
>> the restriction that only very large ISPs can have their own
>> global routing table entries and address spaces of other ISPs
>> must be delegated from those of the very large ISPs.
> 
> You don't make sense. We're not talking about ISPs here, we're talking
> about end users.

Considering that end users won't not directly suffer from nor
complain about routing table explosions, but some clever ISPs
may, we should be talking about ISPs, a collection of which is
RIPE.

Yes, ISPs through RIRs are the source of problems.

> And the IETF can define standards for that.

The distance between IETF and end users is, mostly, infinite.

						Masataka Ohta