RE: recent slowdown in routing table growth

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tony Li wrote:
> I believe that coincided with another round of conciousness
> raising and subsequent housecleaning by several ISPs.  One
> way to confirm this would be to dig through the discussions
> on the NANOG archives.

My belief is that this was caused by two factors:

 1) raised awareness: this exponentially-looking growth raised some
alarms, there was a presentation in IETF51 in London (Aug 2001), etc. --
(some)  people fixed some of their systems.

 2) the dotcom bubble bursting may have killed off a bit of multihoming 
etc. efforts.

Mainly 1), but I'd also like to get some more concrete references.

> |   -----Original Message-----
> |   From: Paul Francis [mailto:paul@francis.com]
> |   Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:16 AM
> |   To: Pekka Savola
> |   Cc: multi6@ops.ietf.org
> |   Subject: Re: recent slowdown in routing table growth
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> |   I'm sorry, I meant middle of 2001.
> |   
> |   PF
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> |   ----- Original Message -----
> |   From: "Pekka Savola" <pekkas@netcore.fi>
> |   To: "Paul Francis" <paul@francis.com>
> |   Cc: <multi6@ops.ietf.org>
> |   Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:40 PM
> |   Subject: Re: recent slowdown in routing table growth
> |   
> |   
> |   > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Paul Francis wrote:
> |   > > I was just looking at a BGP FIB size growth chart and 
> |   noticed that there
> |   was
> |   > > a dip followed by slowed growth around the middle of 1991.
> |   >                                                        ^^^^
> |   >
> |   > you call that recent? :-)
> |   >
> |   > > What caused that?
> |   >
> |   > --
> |   > Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves 
> |   king, yet the
> |   > Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
> |   > Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A 
> |   Clash of Kings
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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings