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[address-policy-wg] 2007-05 New Policy Proposal (IPv6 ULA-Central)
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Gert Doering
gert at space.net
Fri May 4 13:22:29 CEST 2007
Hi,
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:54:22AM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> The motivation for a version with a central registry however is not so
> obvious to me. The only justification I can think of is that you can
> be sure not to pick the same /48 as someone else has picked. But the
> chances of that are *billions* (that's "thousands of millions" to
> British folk) to one!
Take the "birthday paradoxon" into account. Chances for a clash with
"someone else in the room" are actually much higher than the chance
for a clash with "a *specific* number out of the ame pool".
Gert Doering
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