Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net> writes:

As for the routing table growth, yes, this is a very tricky problem, but it cannot be solved at RIR level - the RIRs can not decide who is an "important ISP" and who is a "less important ISP that should prevented from having their own networks" (by being forced to use upstream addresses from "important ISP" - renumbering is fairly easy for end sites, but a PITA for an ISP plus all his customers).

The RIRs may not be able to solve this problem, but they can surely adopt policies that will make it harder if not impossible to solve it. It is this aspect of the apparent proposal in RIPE that I have a BIG problem with. It is far from clear that we have to throw the baby out with the bath water. If folks have issues with the specific policies in the global document, then can we first see if we can fix them in a way that makes sense to all, and doesn't make addressing the routing table growth problem even harder than it already is? Please? Thomas