[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] RE: [6bone] /20 allocated - update your BGP filters!

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 08:47, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:

> On 2004-05-11, at 11.48, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> > What I really don't understand is why people are getting so negatively
> > upset about /20s - what do you *want*?  1 billion /32s in the global
> > routing table, making "efficient" and "conservative" use of FP 001 ?
> 
> Agreed. "Call me when we hit 1000 routes". Noone will be happier than 
> me....

We are almost half way here, checking GRH which should give somewhat of
a globally correct presentation, though there is not much input out of
the APNIC corner, http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/status/ has:

458 good prefixes
17115 BGP AS-PATH entries
325 BGP community entries
Minimum of 1 prefixes
Average of 490 prefixes
Maximum of 543 prefixes

Good prefixes are the TLA's that actually get announced.
There are thus also ~40 more specifics.

And there are currently 739 allocations from RIR's to LIR's.
If the people in the US would wake up they can add 50 visible routes.

Having a 1000 IPv6 routes, educated guess, taking into account the
number of new allocations made each year and that maybe 90% will also
announce them with ~250 allocations in 2003 and 85 allocations already
this first 5 months, which is on the low scale: estimation: 2,5+ years?

But we do have to take in account that per 6/6/2006 6bone* is going
away, which are currently 107 of the announced 'good prefixes', thus
make it at least 3 years in total...

Greets,
 Jeroen

* According to the RFC, according to IANA it's 6/6/2004 ;)
  See http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-tla-assignments

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