[13950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Fri Nov 21 17:52:00 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:44:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
To: avg@pluris.com
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <34760D27.41C67EA6@pluris.com> (message from Vadim Antonov on
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:37:27 -0800)
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?)
My understanding is that they used mandated exchange points to deal with
the deregulation of IXC's, but this only solves one half of the problem.
Tony
