Thus spake "Paul Vixie" <paul(_at_)vix(_dot_)com>
As mentioned above "PI" blocks can be used for this. As such
organizations
who can convince all ISPs in the DFZ that they are important enough to
have
their own routing slot can cough up the dough and be there, others will
just
have to do with this mechanism to get around.
by what method do you expect the dfz to start resisting new routes unless
new
fees are paid? there is no historical precedent for such fees, nor for a
transition from no-fees to fees where all decisionmakers are third
parties.
absent such a method, the network operators who dominate the bottom-up RIR
policy process are almost certainly going to make PI hard to qualify for.
In the ARIN region, one can qualify for PI today with as few as 256 hosts,
and there was a recent proposal that would have indirectly dropped that to
64 hosts. I cannot justify calling that "hard"; it's arguably "too easy".
However, the fact is that small PIv4 assignments have had virtually no
uptake -- a few hundred /21-22 blocks assigned according to ARIN staff
recently. The DFZ has not exploded, and in fact it's growing slower than
Moore's Law.
If you're worried about the DFZ and/or exhaustion, go look at the few dozen
big ISPs that are putting hundreds to thousands of routes each in the DFZ
and consuming over 80% of the RIR IP space. The tiny PI players are a
negligible factor compared to the massive deaggregation done by the bigger
players due to some combination of TE and incompetence.
S
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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