Hi, Well if you understand Peak Oil and that the "green revolution" was actually truning fossil fuel into food ie we eat oil....only having 2billion UIDs wont be a problem.
:/ regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 0064 4 463 6272 ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Adam Young [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 28 October 2011 1:52 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Unique world wide UIDS On 10/26/2011 09:35 PM, Adam Young wrote: > On 10/26/2011 08:49 PM, Steven Jones wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Readng the docs on the 32bit UIDs it says it makes an attempt to give >> out a unique range....would it be possible / practical if RH (would >> want to) ran some sort of database or registration function to try >> and insure that? >> >> >> regards >> >> Steven Jones >> >> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE >> >> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ >> >> 0064 4 463 6272 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freeipa-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users > No. It would not be. Fragmentation of the 32 Bit space means that > you are going to have clashes. Just look at IPv4 addresses and you > can see an analogue. 32bits really means 32 bits, as you have to > deal with sometimes things being stored in signed values (Java for > instance) so you have 2^31 or 2,147,483,648. Which is not quite a > quarter of the worlds population. Wrote this too late at night. Should read "less than half of the world's population" but the argument stays the same. > Now, assuming that any organization is going to be smaller than that, > you have to figure out how much to give them...they are going to make > it a financial decision, so the US governement buys up enough to be > future proof, lets say 1 Billion, leaveing a little over 1 Billion > for the Rest of the world...then China comes in. Then India. You get > the idea. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipa-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
