The last presentations that I saw about it said that we are going to be
fine:http://www.iepg.org/2011-11-ietf82/2011-11-13-bgp2011.pdf http://www.iepg.org/2011-11-ietf82/iepg-201111.pdf Regards, as On 20/03/2013 02:53, Randy Bush wrote: > i am not saying bgp and forwarding can deal with growth forever, but > > o over my career, the death of spinning oxide has always been two > years away. yet the hardwhere jocks have continued to pull the > rabbit out of the hat. perhaps, many decades later, ssds have > finally caught up and physical limits are finally approaching. > > o a dozen or so years ago, i shared an nsf grant with lixia, dan, and > others called "better bgp," based on the assumption that bgp was not > gonna scale. i took the contrary position, we actually had no clear > measurement showing it was not going to scale. out of this came > beacons, 'happy packets', etc. > > so i think we need some measurements of the sky before we can judge the > rate of its descent. > > randy >
