CIDR FAQ

I write:

Which somewhat explains why this group reminds me of a bunch of decapitated
hens.

Would it be correct to interpret your last sentence as:

    We don't what the underlying cause of the growth in prefixes
          is (new allocations, old allocations, ISP's not aggregating).

With other words, we don't even know if the I-D in question is fixing the
right problem.

[the CC list is getting very long, I've tried to trim it a bit]

Just to provide some hard (haha) data I wipped up a perl script and
dumped a full routing table from one of our routers. Daniel Karrenberg
has produced similar numbers before if I remember correctly. In any
case this allows a large amount of finger pointing (located in Europe
I particulary happy with the performance of 193/24), in particular
visual inspection of 199/24 would seem to indicate a -lot- of aggregation
potential.

Format /24 prefix #of prefixes %of total address space announced

All usual disclaimers apply (I've not done more than a couple of
sanity checks on the data).

  6 1 100
  9 2 00
12 1 100
13 1 100
16 1 100
17 1 100
18 1 100
20 1 100
26 1 100
32 1 100
33 1 100
34 1 100
35 1 100
36 1 100
38 1 100
39 25 00
40 1 100
44 1 100
45 1 100
46 1 100
50 1 100
57 1 100
128 175 68
129 180 70
130 147 57
131 129 80
132 90 70
133 153 59
134 215 75
135 11 04
136 56 25
137 159 66
138 117 57
139 100 39
140 148 57
141 168 81
142 121 100
143 111 45
144 118 46
145 15 05
146 125 48
147 149 60
148 100 40
149 151 58
150 148 59
151 65 23
152 84 49
153 56 24
154 3 01
155 123 53
156 58 22
157 125 49
158 136 61
159 118 45
160 106 47
161 109 42
162 64 25
163 106 41
164 104 41
165 124 50
166 71 24
167 90 46
168 121 47
169 26 13
170 72 28
171 5 26
192 6743 25
193 1953 100
194 1298 28
195 1 100
196 280 04
197 1 00
198 4109 55
199 3372 54
200 273 09
202 1243 19
203 580 33
204 3013 69
205 1217 33
206 329 19
208 3 00

Simon