Scott Bradner indicated IESG has placed consideration of this draft on
hold till the next IETF, and encouraged the WG to email their views on
this document to the IESG.
o Statistics
Vince Fuller presented a graph of routing prefixes in the Internet
(provided by Erik-Jan Bos of SURFnet) and the growth in the routing
table appears linear. Several sharp downward spikes in the routing
table appeared to correspond to IETF meetings.
Frank Solensky presented a graph of class B and C address space
address assignment, and the extrapolated allocation curves have
appeared to flattened out significantly. It was suggested that this was
the result of stricter adherance to to standard address allocation
policies by registries. In a followup note, Frank states that there's a
risk that the curves could ramp upwards again in the future as the ISPs
run out of the addresses they've been allocated; if and when that occurs
is difficult to predict.
o Other Topics
Eventual depletion of AS numbers was raised as an issue; the BGP4
protocol allows 2^16 worth of AS numbers. It was suggested that IDRP
was the appropriate long-term solution, as it allows much longer
autonomous system numbers.
Bill Manning presented a short review of some of the CIDRD working
group activities, and noted that many were "policy" docs. Bill asked:
"Should the IETF do policy documents?" Scott Bradner led a discussion
of whether we need some group in the IETF which addresses such issues
on an ongoing basis. Discussion continued to fill the available time slot,
touching on topics such as the IESG's ability to set policies, other
network provider forums which work on policy issues, and the
possibility of creating an ongoing working group or maintaining an open
meeting to handle operational policy issues. Some folks felt that it was
important to have an active forum for customers, operators, and
developers in one place in order to continue the interaction which has
occured in CIDR. A show of hands reflected an overall weak interest in
moving forward with this proposal at the current time.
