Of course one could take this approach to its logical conclusion and specify a single global ID to use in such a context. That will reduce the minimum number of draws to generate a collision to 2. Is that what you are after?
thanks,
Geoff
At 08:33 AM 29/08/2003 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Geoff Huston wrote: [...] > The likelihood of conflict exceeds 0.5 after only 1.24 million draws. I'd > contend that this is definitely not "small" as described in the draft.
I consider this a bug. Actually, the number of draws should be smaller, e.g. 1000, to avoid having local addresses misused where they should not.
That way, prople wouldn't get delusions to e.g. route such addresses in the Internet. 1.24 million draws until a probable conflict could still sound attractive.
-- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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