[arin-ppml] IPv6 /32 minimum for extra-small ISP

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

On 4/14/2010 12:58 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> The problem is that even if you got an extremely small allocation
>> that as soon as you advertise it, you consume the same amount of
>> routing resources on everyone else's BGP router on the Internet,
>> that someone with a larger allocation has who is advertising theirs.
>>   Thus it is not fair to base pricing solely on the amount of numbering.
>
> Just curious. Has this assertion ever been tested, examined, modeled?
> There are two logical components to this statement that I am interested in verifying:
> A small allocation:
> a) "consumes the same amount of resources"
> b) on "everyone else's" BGP router
>
> The latter is an especially strong claim.
>

There are these things called "looking glasses" you can find them
at traceroute.org and when you log in to them you will see that
BGP propagation is pretty much world-wide.  It's a pretty amazing
thing, this Internet network.

<eyeroll>

Ted