[lir-wg] Discussion about RIPE-261

Hi,

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:56:15PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Also the Internet doesn't get more instable with more prefixes.

Can you back that claim by some facts or research studies?

I know that people at a couple of universities are researching into 
this right now, and currently the primary assumption is "yes, it does" 
(because the sheer size of the lists is longer, routers *need* more time 
to process them, delaying convergence, plus every now and then you
hit a boundary that causes BGP flaps due to out-of-memory and/or 
necessary router upgrades).

Gert Doering
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