Re: [RRG] Re: FYI -- Informal LISP BOF scheduled for lunch time on Thursday

[Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 11:39 PM, John G. Scudder wrote:

> Of course, it's hard to prove a negative, especially about large  
> complex distributed systems.  OTOH, there's some argument to be  
> made (and I've made it before) that there's no obvious knee in the  
> BGP performance curve.


Strictly speaking John is, of course, correct.  We should continue to  
see linear degradation in performance as the table grows.

However, some speculate that we will see a knee in the number of  
prefixes that are carried in the DFZ.  In these scenarios, as a  
market for v4 prefixes is established, it will become easier for  
organizations to acquire PI prefixes and inject them.  Further,  
existing space holders will tend to de-aggregate them so as to  
maximize their market positions.  This combination could possibly  
lead to a knee in the size of the overall table and a resulting knee  
in overall Internet convergence time.

I should stress that this is all speculative at this point and we  
will simply have to see how it all plays out.

We live in interesting times.

Tony

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