Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations

[Eric Kozowski <kozowski () structured net>]

> If you convince the registries to allocate no longer prefix than an /18 
> or a mix of lengths up to say /19 or /20 (such that no more than 1000ish 
> are allocated) to ISP's or multihomed companies, and then require that 
> the announcement must match the allocated block, you can guarantee that
> the routing table will not exceed the 1024 per /8. 
>
> Then, some of you will ask how to enforce this.  Once every so often, you 
> dump the BGP routing tables from strategic routers.  If you see any 
> non-matching prefixes, you send an email to the network coordinator for 
> the allocated block giving them a set amount of time to clean it up.  Any 
> routes which are not cleaned up by the deadline are added to a filter 
> list which could be carried on routers.  
>
> This method would have (at least) the following advantages (or 
> disadvantages, from your particular viewpoint):
>
>  1) You could reasonably assure that the number of prefixes in an 
>     /8 would match what was allocated.
>
>  2) Because of 1, if you get the registries to set their
>     allocation policies such that no more than 1024 (or the target number)
>     blocks are allocated per /8, you can guarantee that the number of
>     routes in an /8 is not too far out of wack with the target.
>
>  3) You can give those people moving providers a grace period to renumber,
>     say 30 days.  Essentially, the time given to clean up the routing
>     tables.  This would be a side effect of the "you have 30 days to fix
>     the routing tables or else".
>
>  4) You eliminate the wasted space of addresses with prefixes longer than
>     /18 being allocated.

An excellent, well thought out proposal.  I like it.

Eric

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