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

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

On 2008-01-24 15:16, Tony Li wrote:
> 
> Hi Robin,
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Robin Whittle wrote:
> 
>>> However, if we do need host granularity, then I think you need
>>> about 3 orders of magnitude more scale, and pure push approaches
>>> simply won't get you there.
>>
>> Yes, but I would say two orders of magnitude - 10^10 as an outside
>> limit.
> 
> 
> Not to quibble, but...  10^10 is only 10 billion.  We're about to add 6
> billion cell phones to the net, and the thought of every human having on
> average 2 devices within 50 years doesn't seem like it's impossible.
> 
> ~"If an architectural parameter isn't obviously too large, then it's
> probably too small."~
>                                         - Ross Callon
> 

Sure, and nobody has even mentioned sensor networks recently.

But is that the point? I'm not arguing that we shouldn't be able to map
EIDs as long as /128. I'm suggesting that these will be a small minority,
and that the size of the map is likely to be in the 10^8 range at most, since
most of the entries will be sites (for some definition of "site", but
on average, significantly larger than a single household).

   Brian

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