RE: recent slowdown in routing table growth

["Ayyasamy, Senthilkumar (UMKC-Student)" <saq66@umkc.edu>]

> > But,as per geoff's presentation, multi-homing/TE will surely
> > be a major contributor in future.
> 
> Why do people keep blaming multihomers for the mess that is the global
> routing table?

Its a prediction and not a proved fact. But, your correct that
address fragmentation and failure to aggregate contribute more to
the growth than multi-homing/load balancing(TE)



> Prefix filtering is evil because it targets the wrong people:
> multihomers. 

yup. that is a major problem with prefix filtering. we have
to find methods for announcing fine-grained prefixes( to 
allow TE/multi-homing.) I don't know if any one have suggestions.
But, http://www.research.att.com/~jrex/papers/filter.pdf suggests
that we can define reserved communities to label those prefixes.

I have some other comments -like how one can cluster a set of
identically announced prefixes to reduce RT size. We can have 
it off-list(if you like), as the discussion is far off from 
multi6 charter.