alphanumerics won't solve anything here. We are still in a 32-bit headroom. Changing the visual represenatation from base-10 to base-64 won't make any difference.
Bloody hell, come to think of it: bigints don't fit in a 32bit space either. Time to rethink... Kevin Baker wrote: > <snip> > >>I'm interested in the sorts of server-id's we can start >>configuring for. >>Strictly numerical? Why not alpha-numeric? What would the >>implications be >>of compressing the numeric time into an alpha-numeric >>field, using either >>base-32 or base-64 in terms of the ascending nature of the >>id numbers, and >>which of the fields are required to be numeric by the IMAP >>spec. > > > It would probably be ok to have alpha characters so long > as when listed they maintain sequence properly. Below RFC. > The advantage would be that alpha allows for 36 unique > characters position (26alpha, 10 numeric) while numeric > only allows for 10. With this in mind it would be great to > have a two character position open for server id as it > would allow for much larger server clusters with unique > server id's. > > > 2.3.1.1. Unique Identifier (UID) Message Attribute > > RFC Unique-id Requirements Summary > - 32-bit value (not necessarily number) > - must be uniquie across all messages in mailbox > - strictly ascending not necessarily contiquous > > > >>You're way awesome for tackling this problem! I'd help >>more, but I'm still >>totally swamped in work :-\ >> > > Yes thanks again.... Let me know if I can help in any way, > even if it is just research. It was actually kind fun to > "decode" that giant RFC ;) > > > Kevin Baker > > > > >>Aaron >>_______________________________________________ >>Dbmail-dev mailing list >>Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org >>http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl
