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Re: [RRG] Text proposal: mapping granularity

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Subject: Re: [RRG] Text proposal: mapping granularity
From: Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:48:30 -0400
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Excerpts from Robin Whittle on Fri, Mar 21, 2008 03:02:23PM +1100:
> > How about we just rephrase it to be "contiguous blocks of
> > identifiers"?
> 
> This would be great.  It would be brief, unambiguous and would mean
> that the mapping system wasn't constrained to provide micronets (EID
> prefixes) with lengths only in powers of two.

In reality ranges are always implemented as powers of two.  What's the
point?

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