Hi, On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:54:22AM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
The motivation for a version with a central registry however is not so obvious to me. The only justification I can think of is that you can be sure not to pick the same /48 as someone else has picked. But the chances of that are *billions* (that's "thousands of millions" to British folk) to one!
Take the "birthday paradoxon" into account. Chances for a clash with "someone else in the room" are actually much higher than the chance for a clash with "a *specific* number out of the ame pool". Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 113403 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279