[13463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv8 < IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Thu Nov 6 14:33:14 1997
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 14:19:57 -0500
From: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971106111905.28971@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>; from Jay R. Ashworth on Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 11:19:05AM -0500
Jay R. Ashworth demanded:
> And, as I noted in a private reply: justify that statement.
Physical topology is likely to map to geographic topology.
Circuits certainly do take odd L1 paths to connect L1 endpoints,
but these are exceptions, not he rule.
Accordingly, not allocating in a geographic fashion lends to
deaggregation, which is bad.
Even me, as a proponent of fully meshed architectures, recognizes
that hierarchy is demanded, and will give rise to efficient
network announcments if properly utilized.
-alan
