[152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Aug 1 23:02:32 1995
From: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
To: kwe@6SigmaNets.com (Kent W. England)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 22:58:37 -0500 (EST)
Cc: haas@xmission.com, nanog@merit.edu, haas@xmission.xmission.com
In-Reply-To: <v02110112ac44986fc1d8@[138.112.190.3]> from "Kent W. England" at Aug 1, 95 07:04:36 pm
>
> This is true for non-geographic markets, but what happens when the Internet
> reaches a size where geographic markets develop?
>
> In other words, when it makes sense to buy pizza on the Net, won't it make
> sense to revive geographic naming, to serve geographic markets?
>
There are also organizations, such as ours, which cannot sanely
aggregate traffic on a geographic measure, since a single gateway
to a corporate network (which may span the globe) may be located
in Duluth. We simply cannot sanely assign networks on a geographical
basis. This would be farcical. CIDR'isation in this case would be
on a corporate/organizational level.
In this thread, no one has yet mentoned this particular issue.
i realize that this has _no_ impact on domain naming, yet it is
indeed an issue which has been overlooked by most providers.
- paul
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