This is broken by design. What would have happend if this
had be done before the fiber glut in the late 90's? As far
as I am aware a couple of new fiber routes have been build
and a few more cities have become nodes.
I am not suggesting time machines. I am proposing that
this be done now,
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
10 years ago we didn't have the RIR system in
place to help us with geographic addressing. Today
we do. Now you might be able to convince me that
we could achieve similar goals by putting together
route registries, RIRs and some magic pixie dust.
As far as I'm
David Barak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
What exactly would be so bad about taking a page from the PSTN and
using a country-code-like system? There are under 200 countries on
the whole planet, so that's not a huge number of bits...
Not that this avoids renumbering, as countries do
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--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
10 years ago we didn't have the RIR system in place to help us with
geographic addressing. Today we do. Now you might
--- Peter Corlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Barak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
What exactly would be so bad about taking a page
from the PSTN and
using a country-code-like system? There are under
200 countries on
the whole planet, so that's not a huge number of
bits...
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, David Barak wrote:
What exactly would be so bad about taking a page from
the PSTN and using a country-code-like system? There
are under 200 countries on the whole planet, so that's
not a huge number of bits...
...and what if you're operating in
On 30-nov-04, at 16:29, Scott Morris wrote:
In the interconnected world, geography is very much irrelevant to best
path
routing. It's all about speeds and feeds where a local-access T-1 is
obviously not preferable to a cross-country OC-3.
I have a very hard time seeing this as a realistic
, November 30, 2004 2:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Sensible geographical addressing [Was: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs yadda,
yadda]
On 30-nov-04, at 16:29, Scott Morris wrote:
In the interconnected world, geography is very much irrelevant to best
path routing. It's all about speeds and feeds where
On 30-nov-04, at 23:32, Scott Morris wrote:
At large NAP points (the higher order ISP's) this may make some sense
because of the ubiquity of larger scale lines.
Why would geographical aggregation need bigger lines?
Of
Iljitsch van Beijnum
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Subject: Re: Sensible geographical addressing [Was: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs yadda,
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On 30-nov-04, at 23:32, Scott Morris wrote:
At large NAP points (the higher order ISP's) this may make some sense
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