(IPng 5000) Re: Last Call: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture to Proposed Standard

Before we wander too far down this path, there was a very interesting
paper at the last sigcom in which the authors managed to shrink the
size of the then current routing table (~40k routes) into less than 
200K of memory.

In short, I differ from Mike in that my values for "believed to be viable"
differ, apparently wildly, from his and brians.  I'm unconvinced that
this will remain a true, long term technological argument. I'd like to
see something besides, "too hard with 1990's technologies".  "Long time"
ought to have a better spec than say, Internet Dog Years?


> 
> brian's reason is exactly the goal which was in mind:
> 
> to bound the maximum complexity of the default-free region
> at values believed to be viable with some margin.
> 
> Like everything else, 13 is an engineering compromise - chosen
> to balance one set of considerations against a bunch of others,
> and after ruminating over it a long time, the consensus was
> 13 was the best choice.
> 


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--bill