On Friday, Nov 1, 2002, at 10:06 America/Montreal, Randy Bush wrote:
information reduction has been is the only tool the isps have to
deal with routing bloat and weak vendor hardware. if you would
care to suggest others, i am all ears.
Agree,
and some few of us suspect there might be a convergence time wall not
very far
in front of us in IPv4-land, that is not due to "weak vendor hardware",
but instead due to inherent issues in the current Path Vector algorithms
behind BGP. This kind of suspicion is part of why the IRTF RRG is
examining
the broader topic of IP routing -- though that level of research is
outside
the charter for this list....