Re: [RRG] ALT + NERD is inelegant & inefficient, compared to APT or Ivip

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

On 2008-01-24 03:02, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Robin,
>> NERD on its own won't work because every ITR in the world would need
>> the full feed of mapping updates.
>>   
> 
> Table 1 in Section 5.1 of draft-lear-lisp-nerd-02.txt addresses this
> somewhat.  At 10^8 EIDs, assuming IPv6 addresses, the database size is
> likely to be less than 6 GB.  Let us be pessimistic and say that the
> update rate is 1.0% per day, leading to a change rate of 60MB per day,
> or an hourly rate of 2.5MB.  My netnews server could do this in 1987. 
> We're talking about 2050.  What's the problem?

I seem to hear Tony saying that 10^8 is nothing like enough, unless
I'm missing something in his argument that we should go to host level.
Personally I think that 10^8 is more than plenty, but we do need to get
a fix on this.

    Brian

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