[address-policy-wg] 2017-03 New Policy Proposal (Reducing Initial IPv4 Allocation, aiming to preserve a minimum of IPv4 space)

* Tom Hill <tom.hill at bytemark.co.uk> [2017-09-21 16:27]:
> Over half of the table is made-up of /24s; that is not a coincidence.
> 
> If any new "standard" is chosen for the minimum visible prefix size, you
> can bet all of those /24 announcements will start turning into a lot
> more /25 announcements very quickly.
> 
> "But otherwise I'm liable to hijack!", ad infinitum.
> 
> I dunno about you, but I can see a lot of operators not being too happy
> with a ~25% increase in the number of prefixes they're storing in TCAM.

I think getting the DFZ to lower the minimum prefix size from a /24 is
nothing more than wishful thinking. I would bet that IPv4 will run out
completely before that happens.

Regards

Sebastian

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