[13948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Nov 21 17:42:31 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:37:27 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
CC: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Tony Li wrote:
> True, however, geographic addressing has some rather severe practical
> problems. The exchange point at the top becomes a single point of
> failure. So it needs replication. But then, there needs to be
> interconnect between the exchange points. Who provides it?
Another way to say it is that monopoly is necessary to take
advantage of geographic addressing. Baby Bells do that now
(with the area codes). I'm wondering what is their idea of
migrating into competitive market (centralized database?)
--vadim
