Hi Luigi, Thanks for the paper. It's an interesting approach, although I don't know how robust the conclusions are given the number of assumptions and the potential for non-linear behaviour.
One point I want to dispute is in the very first sentence: "...with the most pressing issue being the super linear growth of the BGP routing table [3]." Superlinear with respect to what? The growth may be faster than linear with respect to time, but time is not a scale metric. As I've shown [URL below], BGP growth was historically significantly *sublinear* with respect to the total number of Internet subscribers, which means that it is also sublinear with respect to total ISP revenue. That means that BGP-related OPEX has automatically declined as a fraction of revenue as the subscriber base increased. It may be that the effects you describe are second-order compared to this, and therefore not very powerful as (dis)incentives. Brian [See Observed Relationships between Size Measures of the Internet, ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 39(2) (April 2009) 6-12, http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/sqlaw.pdf ] Regards Brian Carpenter On 2010-03-12 23:52, Luigi Iannone wrote: > Hi All, > > Tapio Leva and myself worked on some economic aspects of Loc/ID Split. > The analysis is pretty simple but has some merits. Attached is the paper. > > Hope that this work is of some interest for the list. Comments are very > welcome. > > Ciao > > Luigi > _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
