It would be a lot easier to do it by continent. 3 bits at prepend. We only have 7 of those and Antarctica likely doesn't need several billion addresses anyway. Got some leftover for the United Federation of Planets. :) (or whatever other semi-practical use that may be dreamed up)
You could do the same type of thing with E.164 country code ideas, but that may be a bit stranger and drive the need for more RIRs along the way. Scott On 3/8/11 2:18 AM, George Bonser wrote: >> well... not that it gained any traction atall, but given >> the actual size/complexity of the global interconnect mesh, >> we -could- ease the transition timing by many years with the >> following administrative change. No tricks, no OS hacks, >> no changes to software anywhere.. just a bit of renumbering... >> >> recipie: >> >> the usable IPv4 ranges >> RFC 1918 >> >> Step one: Invert RFC 1918 to define the global Internets >> interconnection >> mesh. >> Step two: make all other usable IPv4 space "private". >> >> Serves 2,000,000 million clients w/o changing to a new protocol >> family. >> >> >> Enjoy! >> >> --bill > And I fully expect that to be done at some point or another. Country > takes the entire 32bit address space for itself. You want to serve that > country? Fine, apply for an allocation out of their /0 and route to it > over v6. > > > > > >
