At 12:37 PM 12/17/2000 -0500, J. Noel Chiappa wrote:
It's hard to put numbers on it without knowing what %-age of sites which are
already globally advertised has more that one prefix, and how fast that
number is growing. However, looking at the routing table growth (it has
doubled in about 3 years), and given the growth in the user community over
that time, one has to expect that the growth in the user community is the
driver.
This is probably true. The data seem to support it. The increase in
prefixes due to stingy allocation policies apparently has been more than
cancelled out by the decrease in prefixes (presumably) due to better
aggregation.
The number of prefixes per AS has been trending downward:
http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp-entries-as.html
while the number of ASes has been increasing:
http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp-as-count.html
Bradley