On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Richard Chycoski ve7cvs@chycoski.com wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ One of the questions that was asked: Why do we need to validate the existing tables?
Is the 44 net so congested that having invalid entries in the table a functional issue?
Are there ways to trim the table? A solution that filters for what are believed to be unused addresses (based upon utilisation for the last year or so) might be a good start - the number of false positives should be small enough for the fallout to be handled with a very small overhead on the coordinators.
As to the international situation - there are a small number of countries that have significant allocations that will need to oversee their own country's IP ranges - but it's important for the largest 'polluter' (the US) to clean up whatever can be recovered.
Is this just a US problem, or are there other ranges where cleanup of the 44.x space is needed?
- Richard
It's more about housekeeping and cruft that has built up over the decades rather than performance. Once you open the floodgates of everyone managing their DNS records, the task becomes magnitudes more difficult as everything is then changing. The problem is not isolated to just the US but globally.
As for figuring out what is unused or not, there isn't any good way of determining that.