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 occasionally split or merge. Sometimes there's also address space exhaustion within a country and renumbering is required. (I am reminded of a Londoner whining about "loads" of number changes since 1990. In fact, there have been just three: 01 -> 071/081 -> 0171/0181 -> 020.) -- PGP key ID E85DC776 - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full key
