On 9 Mar 2011, at 07:18, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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> one of these curves is steeper than the other.
That's what we wanted for the first one.
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> http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/plota?file=%2fvar%2fdata%2fbgp%2fv6%2fas2.0%2fbgp-active%2etxt&descr=Active%20BGP%20entries%20%28FIB%29&ylabel=Active%20BGP%20entries%20%28FIB%29&with=step
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> http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/plota?file=%2fvar%2fdata%2fbgp%2fas2.0%2fbgp-active%2etxt&descr=Active%20BGP%20entries%20%28FIB%29&ylabel=Active%20BGP%20entries%20%28FIB%29&with=step
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> If the slope on the second stays within some reasonable bounds of it's
> current trajactory then everything's cool, you buy new routers on
> schedule and the world moves on. The first one however will eventually
> kill us.
It won't, it will take an "S" shape eventually. Possibly around 120k
prefixes, then it will follow the normal growth of the Internet as v4 did.
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> The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run
> we are all dead - John Maynard Keynes
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>> randy
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-as
