On Wed, 25 July 2001, Geoff Huston wrote:

> I posted on Nanog a few days back that there were some interesting recent 
> trends visible:
> 
> a) a drop in the growth of AS numbers being announced
> b) a drop in the growth of /24 prefixes
> and
> c) a hiatus in the growth of the number of entries in the BGP FIB tables in 
> a number of ASs
> 
> Most of these have visibly kicked in round late April one way or another
> 
> My take on this is that there are two factors at play at present:
> 
> a) a 'clean up' of the routing noise in the /23 - /32 prefix area
> 
> b) a side effect of a more general economic slowdown


Thanks, Geoff!  Very helpful, as always.  I did not realize you were "listening". Sorry, too, for missing the NANOG post -- I have not updated all of my subscriptions since I changed jobs.

Best regards,
- Scott