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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
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Subject: Re: Domains: Multiple names OK? (Really, are domains good)
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 03:35:54 EDT
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In article <205@BMS-AT.UUCP> stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:
>
>(The overhead for broadcasting maps grows
>exponentially with the number of machines in the network!)

   If this were true the entire capacity of the net would long ago have
been given over to maps.  The per-site cost should grow linearly; i.e.,
as the size of the map itself.  Thus the total net-wide cost will grow
quadratically in the number of hosts in the network.

   -- David desJardins