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

On 2008-01-24 15:38, Tony Li wrote:
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> 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).
> 
> 
> A fair point, but I would certainly be more comfortable knowing that the
> mapping subsystem was designed to deal with the worst case load rather
> than simply the expected load.
> 
> Something about half-inch gusset plates on bridges comes to mind...  ;-(

That's also a fair point, but of course a factor two on a lump of steel
is easier to arrange than a factor 100 on a distributed database.

    Brian



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