Quite the opposite. As the technical limitations of the routing gear are reached, shorter and shorter prefixes will be tolerated until IPv4 is utterly unusable if we try to stay on IPv4 that long.
Owen On Jun 21, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Michael McConnell <mich...@winkstreaming.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > As the IPv4 space get smaller and smaller, does anyone think we'll see a time > when /25's will be accepted for global BGP prefix announcement. The current > smallest size is a /24 and generally ok for most people, but the crunch gets > tighter, routers continue to have more and more ram will it always be /24 the > smallest size? > > Cheers, > Mike > > -- > > Michael McConnell > WINK Streaming; > email: mich...@winkstreaming.com > phone: +1 312 281-5433 x 7400 > cell: +506 8706-2389 > skype: wink-michael > web: http://winkstreaming.com