Re: An informal survey... round II

["William Herrin" <herrin-nanog () dirtside com>]

On 8/30/07, John Curran <jcurran () mail com> wrote:
> I.E.  If at some time unknown around 2010, ISP's stop receiving
> new allocations from their RIR, and instead use of many smaller
> "recycled" IPv4 address blocks, we could be looking at a 10x to
> 20x increase in routes per month for the same customer growth.

John,

Why should we announce tiny recycled blocks? If there is a /16 in the
swamp in which half the space is free but its all /24's, why wouldn't
wouldn't we allocate all the free /24's to a single entity and
instruct the entity to announce it as a "holey" /16? The existing /24
holders will override (punch holes in) the /16 for their /24's.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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