[manet] Re: BABEL question

> OK, if our big-picture world views coincide that is good - we are therefore both
> considering a population size at least as large as the number of people on the
> planet. Google "how many cellphones are there in the world" says:

There is a reason why cellphones are organized in CELLS... each of
them being tightly organized and aggregated into prefixes by the
provider.

> "There are currently more mobile phones than people in the world. While the
> exact number fluctuates, estimates suggest there are over 12 billion mobile
> connections worldwide"

Sorry, this discussion is getting somewhat silly or even insane...

There is not a single routing protocol in the world that can deal with
billions of nodes or prefixes...
There is not a single adhoc routing protocol that can deal with
hundreds of thousands or nodes in a dynamic environment, even ten
thousands is beyond challenging.

(lets ignore the fact that most adhoc capable radio technologies
provide a serious restriction on the number of devices within a
collision domain for now)

> > > So, the population size should be on the order of 10^10 with aspirations
> > > of becoming larger still.

Saying you want a prefix for a flat adhoc routing domain with 10^10
routing entries is ridiculous.

And you have yet to answer what is wrong about just selecting your /64
part based on the MAC or EUI-64 part of your radio... no collision and
more address space than we will EVER need on Earth.

I think you don't comprehend the scales you are talking about...
especially the technical issues.

Henning Rogge

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