Just thinking about all these Telecom peering points.
Assuming that Telecom allocate IP addresses as they are
requested by incoming broadband connections, as opposed to by geographic
peering point, then there will be no way to summarise addresses at these
peering points.
So this will imply that those ISP which do peer at these
points will have to listen to a good 100k odd /32 announcements (at the larger
peering points). I could easily see the routing table having to contain
200k to 300k additional /32 routes if you want to allow least cost routing to
work its best. If there are redundant paths then this could increase a
lot more.
Then consider the case when a /32 appears to be from
Dunedin, and then the next second it appears to be from Wellington (because the
Dunedin broadband user lost their session, and a new Wellington use just
acquired their dynamic IP address). Then consider all the places these
routes could be redistributed to within different ISPs, and potentially outside
of their own AS. Then consider [non telecom] peering points that only
accept a /24 or bigger. Not that anything is wrong with asymmetric routing,
but doing it almost to the customer edge is going to make solving connectivity
issues much more difficult (I can access this web site, but not that web site
...). I can see a lot of potential for route flapping, and for frequent
routing updates to occur. I can also see the potential for short term
route loops occurring.
I see route stability issues arising in NZ’s future,
or have I missed something?