Re: SIP Addressing Limitations

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> Paul, in my view it's time for you to put up or shut up.  Show me this
> fine allocation plan of yours with:
> 
>  - a guaranteed set of constraints.
>  - a provable maximal routing table size.
>  - aggregates so that an international amateur radio operator sees a
>    very small table (< 256 entries, preferably < 10).
>  - scales on an inter-planetary basis.

I take small exception to the last two features.  Who cares that an
international amateur radio operator using *today's* technology would
have a very small routing table?  I just don't see this as a
technology driver.

The phrase "scales on an inter-planetary basis," although probably
true for anything we expect in the next 100 years (as far as
interplanetary settlement is concerned), seems excessive.  Usually
scaling implies something like an order of magnitude or another level
of hierarchy, but the "interplanetary" scaling here is a simple
linear extension through the addition more population centers.  The
use of "interplanetary" seems like hype, to me.

On the other hand, it is worthwhile simply to state that useful global
routing can be accomplished with a relatively small routing table, and
that there is plenty of room with the current addressing plan to
extend geographically as well as numerically.

Regards,

Tracy