Re: CIDR Report

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

On Sat, 13 May 2000 pjnesser () Nesser COM wrote:

> But if you look at the last 250 days or so you see that the table has
> grown by more than 16k routes.  So we are seeing growth at 300% of what we
> saw for the last 5 plus years.  It also looks annoyingly geometric or
> perhaps exponential, instead of the nice linear growth since CIDR was
> introduced.  

If you just check from 01/01/99 to date then it looks linear or at least
close to linear.
 
I guess it *could* be that growing amount of new companies getting
internet access is increasing. Is there any data that show "CIDR GAIN"
from the cidr report, so we can see if the increase corresponds to an
increase in (perhaps unneccessary) smaller announcements in larger blocks,
or if it is actually just a lot more blocks allocated that needs to be
routed. Any stats on arin/ripe/apnic new allocations of blocks in the same
timeframe? Both in terms of IP adresses and in number of blocks of IP
adresses. This would also give us some kind of hint as to when IPv4 space
will be exhausted (or are there already projections about this?)

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se