On 20/09/2010 20:39, Adrian Kennard wrote:
On 2010-09-20 20:36, Leo Vegoda wrote:
On 20 Sep 2010, at 12:32, Mo McRoberts wrote:
On 20-Sep-2010, at 19:26, Leo Vegoda wrote:
I should probably point out that there is no charge for PENs assigned following
a request made at:
http://pen.iana.org/pen/PenApplication.page
In most cases, PENs are assigned nice and quickly. If anyone has concerns about
the process then please let us know.
how big are OID atoms? is there a countdown clock for when we'll run out of
PENs? ;)
I understand that the PEN space is infinite. Of course, typing a *very* long
string of numbers into a configuration might be a bit awkward.
Now why could they not have done that for IP addresses :-
Fixed-length addresses are necessary for scaling. Note that IPv6 causes
some scaling issues for a lot of current hardware (7600/6500 need two
passes to route an IPv6 packet, whereas IPv4 needs only one). I suspect
that a world with variable(arbitrary?)-length addressing would be having
many more capacity scaling issues than we now are :)
adam.
