[13494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: moving to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Nov 7 18:00:24 1997
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 14:46:57 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
CC: "John A. Tamplin" <jat@traveller.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> We could, for example, define a "country code" set of bits in the high-order
> field of the "provider" area. For example, from the LEFT side of the
> IPv6 address (128 bits wide):
Have little experience in international networking, ain't we?
Take Russian Internet for example: five largest ISPs all
have separate dedicated links to _different_ European and
North American backbones.
This seems to be a typical picture all around the world.
European connectivity is particularly convoluted.
--vadim
