Prefix set churn Churn (emergence and disappearance of prefixes in the table) was much higher than growth rate. highest for more specifics lowest for standalone blocks net change in table size sometimes < 0 semiglobal prefixes in following data uses all available RouteViews backbone tables, including filtered tables, for 3 sample points: May 3, August 1, and November 1, 2001 (33, 42, and 39 tables, respectively)