Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Brian E Carpenter]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that we (as a profession) don't know
> > how to do that.  We have to make routing scale, and
> > that demands aggregation, which in turn demands
> > structured addresses.
> 
> The telephone company figured out how to avoid problems decades ago.  Why
> the computer industry has to rediscover things the hard way mystifies me.

The telephone company has milliseconds to seconds to resolve an address
into a route. The Internet has microseconds to nanoseconds to do so.