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

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

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.