Tim Chown wrote: >With 1,000 billion entries, it might also become a large database...
The allocation bitmap would be 128GiB. That fits onto one current commodity hard disk. Are we really quibbling over who's going to have to pay for eternal reliable storage of such a trifling dataset? When this issue was raised on one of the previous occasions, some months ago, I considered setting up a proof-of-concept automated registry for 36-bit random numbers (thus scaled down by a mere factor of 16) on my home equipment. Regrettably I never got round to doing that, but it seems it might still be of use. Operating such a thing might also have useful lessons for the operation of the eventual prefix registry. Thoughts, anyone? -zefram -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
