Re: (IPng 5000) Re: Last Call: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture to Proposed Standard
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 04:48:36 -0800 (PST)
- Posted-date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 04:48:36 -0800 (PST)
Before we wander too far down this path, there was a very interesting
paper at the last sigcom in which the authors managed to shrink the
size of the then current routing table (~40k routes) into less than
200K of memory.
In short, I differ from Mike in that my values for "believed to be viable"
differ, apparently wildly, from his and brians. I'm unconvinced that
this will remain a true, long term technological argument. I'd like to
see something besides, "too hard with 1990's technologies". "Long time"
ought to have a better spec than say, Internet Dog Years?
>
> brian's reason is exactly the goal which was in mind:
>
> to bound the maximum complexity of the default-free region
> at values believed to be viable with some margin.
>
> Like everything else, 13 is an engineering compromise - chosen
> to balance one set of considerations against a bunch of others,
> and after ruminating over it a long time, the consensus was
> 13 was the best choice.
>
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--bill
