On 11/08/2011, at 1:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Yes and no. In terms of potential innovations, if enough of the market chooses /60, they will hard code the assumption that they cannot count on more than a /60 being available into their development process regardless of what gets into the router. Sure, they won't be able to assume you can't get a /48, but, they also won't necessarily implement features that would take advantage of a /48.
They will on their "premium" high price point CPE and/or service provider offerings. It'll be a product differentiator. If enough customers are attracted to it, it'll win. If they aren't, it'll lose. The process of invention and innovation will happen anyway. We're not really talking about that here, we're talking about post-innovation marketing. Maybe ISP#2 in Australia will launch onto the market with /48's for everyone, and we'll respond competitively. Dunno. Whatever, it's all kinda arbitrary really. Not worth arguing about, and certainly not worth delaying implementation until you finish debating the "right" answer.
Perhaps far more than most of you wanted to know about navigation, but, at least worth considering when we think that all forward movement is good forward movement.
The 1-in-60 rule I learned during my pilots license training is a lot easier to explain, without diagrams and with no need for trigonometry. Another useful judgement call when you're flying is to understand that as long as you know where you are and where you want to be, any forward progress whatsoever is a positive when there's a growing thunderstorm behind you :-) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223