Re: [RRG] Tunnel fragmentation/reassembly for RRG map-and-encaps architectures

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

On 2008-01-09 11:15, Tony Li wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
> > Well, we're here because of the concern that BGP4 updates will become
> > prohibitive as multihoming expands, aren't we?
>
>
> Nope.  We're here because routing convergence will continue to degrade 
> as the number of prefixes scales.  There are multiple reasons for the 
> scaling issue, and BGP is irrelevant to the scaling problem, as the 
> scaling of the information content is independent of the delivery 
> mechanism.

That's undeniable. I guess I believe that an unsustainable level of
BGP update traffic will be the first practical consequence to hit us.

    Brian

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