[ppml] ARIN Policy Proposal 2002-9

[Jeff Urmann]

On Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:18 PM John M. Brown (john at chagres.net) wrote:
>Is it fair to ask providers across the globe to carry your
>route?

Absolutely.  IP (the internet) has been around for more than
three decades.  It is the responsibility of an internet router
to route ip traffic.  The internet belongs to the world.  If a
provider chooses to not route traffic, then that is their loss.
They will not last long.  It should not be ARIN`s responsibility
to keep only providers happy.  A compromise must be found.

>The prime issue here is about routing table size.  Memory is
>cheap, CPU is even fairly cheap today.  Yet there is a point
>at which it is "costly" to lookup your route.  Even using 
>some of the new Radix methods its still costly in the sense
>of latency and other metrics.

I would like to have a non-routable /24.  Since you think the
prime issue is about routing table size, then maybe ARIN could
set aside address space for non-routable /24s.  Then both of
us would be extremely happy.  How`s that for a compromise?

>There are 33,000 registered business in New Mexico (my home
>state).  We are a small state.  

>If we say that the average state has 15,000 businesses that 
>should have a /24, that would create a routing table around
>750,000 entries.

>That doesn't scale well.  Memory requirements far exceed current
>in production routing equipment.   Further route flap from all
>of these prefix's could cause more BGP traffic than SPAM does. :)

So, we should just leave all of these addresses _reserved_
forever?  Or only available to the fortune100?  All because
routers are slow?  Make /24s available to small businesses and
router vendors will be forced to make it scale well.

>Most small business don't even have 15 hosts, let alone 254 of them.

Which companies did you poll?  My numbers would be significantly
different.  But I do not have facts, so I will not publish them.

>Bottom line is that the RIR's need to operate based on what works
>well for the various users of the space.  Allocating /24's to every
>business that comes along is not in the best interest of the
>global internet.

Obviously I disagree.  Providers will just have to upgrade their
routers.  ;)

So what if we run out of IP addresses.  If I can`t get one because it
is _reserved_, it may as well be non-existent.  Don`t punish me.
Make policy that gives ARIN teeth to go after wasteful corporations
to get unused space back.  All of these addresses are currently in
the routing tables; aren`t they?  Maybe providers should remove
these addresses from their tables.  That should speed things up
a bit???

Jeffery D. Urmann - Jeff.Urmann at HFA-MN.Org
Network Analyst
Hennepin Faculty Associates
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