Re: [RAI] Global Service Provider ID - draft-pfautz-service-provider-identifier-urn-01

["Livingood, Jason" <[e-mail]>]

>On the other hand, perhaps we're being wildly optimistic about the
>importance of the SPID and the future demand for them.
>
>One might also note that 32 bits is a nice fixed-length number in binary
>(32 digits), quaternary (16 digits), or hexadecimal (8 digits). Why are
>we restricting ourselves to 10 decimal digits, which doesn't map to
>anything binary in a very nice way?

+1
Machines are going to process this stuff in practice anyway, so we needn't
worry that these #s are too long to remember or whatever. Also, now that I
am in the midst of IPv6 deployment I tend to be of the opinion that a
bigger initial address space is better. This is especially the case as
we're not exactly storage or processing constrained in key systems that
would be used.

Feel free to override this one opinion. I just don't want to be on a panel
discussion in 10+ years talking about why we choose such a small SPID
length. ;-)

Jason