Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

["Elmar K. Bins" <elmi () 4ever de>]

nanog-list () nrg4u com (Andre Oppermann) wrote:

> > Apart from that, IMHO cooking down the prefixes only buys time, but does
> > not solve the problem. More people will multihome, and with the current
> > mechanisms and routing cloud, they have to do it by injecting prefixes.
>
> And this won't change in future.
>
> > I'm not sure whether this hasn't long become an architectural question
> > and should be moved to the (new) IETF arch list. Opinions?
> >
> > Yours,
> >     Elmi.
> >
> > PS: Btw, anyone can give me a hint on where to discuss new ideas for
> >    e.g. routing schemes (and finding out whether it's an old idea)?
>
> With pretty high certainy one can say that it is an old idea with some
> minor twist or wording change.

I was thinking of something different from Susan's approach, hence my
question. Cooking up stuff to save memory and processing in the router
isn't it, IMHO, but I have ideas in my head which I would like to share.
But then, I wouldn't want to spoil everybody's time if it's old.

Elmar.

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