URL: http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc3221.txt Entry Date: 2002-12-23 Results: Examines the various longer term trends visible within the characteristics of the Internet's BGP table and identifies a number of operational practices and protocol factors that contribute to these trends. The potential impacts of these practices and protocol properties on the scaling properties of the inter-domain routing space are examined.

Various approaches to a refinement of the inter-domain routing protocol and associated operating practices that may provide superior scaling properties are identified as an area for further investigation. References: Results are based on:

• Huston, G., "The BGP Routing Table", The Internet Protocol Journal, vol. 4, No. 1, March 2001.
• Labovitz, C., Ahuja, A., Bose, A. and J. Jahanian, "Delayed Internet Routing Convergence", Proceedings ACM SIGCOMM 2000, August 2000.