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Re: [narten@us.ibm.com: PI addressing in IPv6 advances in ARIN]



On 14-apr-2006, at 4:21, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

Do you honestly believe the size of the routing table is the biggest challenge to 'cheap' hardware pushing 100s of billions of bits per second?

Does it matter if it's the biggest or second or third biggest? Fast memory is expensive. The amount you need scales linearly with the size of the routing table, and the speed you need scales linearly with the speed of your interface and on top of that, logarithmically with the size of the routing table.

But by taking this position ARIN has effectively declared that the size of the routing table isn't something that the IETF should worry about, so if operators run into trouble in this area they can either solve this with money or filtering.