On 6-mrt-2006, at 22:08, Owen DeLong wrote:
What I hear is "any type of geography can't work because network
topology != geography". That's like saying cars can't work
because they
can't drive over water which covers 70% of the earth's surface.
No, it's more like saying "Cars which can't operate off of freeways
won't work" because there are a lot of places freeways don't go.
Hmmm... Come to think of it, I haven't seen anyone selling a car
which won't operate off of a freeway.
If we slightly open this up to "vehicles on wheels" and "long
distance infrastructure created specially for said vehicles" trains
would qualify...
I've got no opposition to issuing addresses based on some geotop.
design,
simply because on the off chance it does provide useful
aggregation, why
not.
Exactly, that's all I ask.
OTOH, I haven't seen anyone propose geotop allocation as a policy
in the ARIN region (hint to those pushing for it).
Hm, I would rather do this globally but maybe this is the way to go...