On Dec 8, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 8 dec 2010, at 23:48, Jack Bates wrote: > >> I'm going to go out on a limb (and not read the last BGP summary reports) >> and say that ISPs being assigned fragmented space has caused more routing >> table bloat than deaggregation for traffic engineering. > > Why would ISPs get fragmented space? The RIRs are still getting /8s from IANA > at the moment. > Because ISPs get multiple blocks over years from RIRs and don't return their old small block and renumber into a new large one.
> And most deaggregation is not for traffic engineering because the attributes > are all the same. Which would support the above statement. Owen
