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Re: how many locators?

To: Andrew Partan <post-multi6@partan.com>
Subject: Re: how many locators?
From: Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:04:15 +0100
Cc: multi6@ops.ietf.org
Organization: IBM
References: <20031113204733.GA20637@partan.com>

Andrew Partan wrote:
...
> If you go just one hop to the upstream to get the locator, then you
> have just a few locators per host (basically the number of transit
> connections per site), but you have a much larger global routing
> table - approx the number of ISPs in the world.

This is the model I have always assumed for IPv6.

> Is this a reasonable size with reasonable growth factors?

This is what I have assumed.

If these assumptions are false, I think it affects more than just
multi6.

   Brian

References:
- how many locators?
  - From: Andrew Partan <post-multi6@partan.com>

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