In some email I received from Klaus Moeller, sie wrote:
[...]
> > A 64-bit binary microsecond counter comes out like this:
I must have been too quick on the delete key as I can't find the
original which mentioned this. Anyway, I think saying "64-bit"
is going to far.
> > * Ease of processing to get human readable - poor on processors not
> > capable of 64-bit processing
> > * Ease of doing date arithmetic - poor on processor not capable of
> > 64-bit processing
I think that's a poor choice. IPv6 addresses are 128bits long vs IPv4
being 32bit. IPv4 had 32bit addressing when there were barely any 32bit
CPU's around. Design for tomorrow, not yesterday - 32bit chips are
yesterday's technology.
I think you're getting bogged down in detail here. When we've got some
idea of the details to be included in messags, then maybe argue about
how big they should be but right now, who can say how many bits or bytes
X and Y should be when we don't even what they need to store/represent ?
Darren
