13 Feb
2007
13 Feb
'07
2:41 a.m.
Jamie Baddeley wrote:
IX's and the like have accelerated IPv4 depletion. Discuss.
-Multihoming means assignment at the cost of conservation. -Has also accelerated AS number depletion (though that issue seems to have been sidestepped.)
I don't think the IXes are to blame at all. General end organisation multi-homing is far more to blame than peering. How many people are happily peering at WIX using PA space and private ASNs and having the RS' strip them? Perhaps "lack of carrier reliability" would be a better one - if they were reliable, then so many people wouldn't multihome! aj.