OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Thu Jul 7 20:13:13 UTC 2005

In message <885D3ED1-2EE0-431B-A51A-8935E2A34081 at nominum.com>, David Conrad wri
tes:
>
>Christian,
>
>On Jul 7, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Kuhtz, Christian wrote:
>>>> What's the problem with independent address space for every entity
>>>> (company, family, enterprise) which wants it?
>>> It doesn't scale.  Regardless of Moore's law, there are some
>>> fundamental physical limits that constrain technology.
>> Once you add that bit of reality to it, the scaling requirement goes
>> down substantially.  Wouldn't you agree?
>
>My feeling is that the question isn't how much memory, but rather how  
>much CPU and bandwidth is necessary to deal with routing thrash.   

That's right.  The issues are the complexity of the routing computation 
and the convergence time/stability of the routing computation as a 
whole.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb