[25186] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: geographical database of networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Crowder)
Thu Sep 23 14:39:38 1999
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jack Crowder <monterey@spies.com>
To: Matt Hempel <mhempel@aestus.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Two words: IP Mobility. I always thought it was more marketing than
content but that doesn't stop some applications from being developed to
use it.
My guess would be that you'd have more trouble getting people to agree on
how the 'carve' would happen than the implementation. Then of course
there are the hackers who would love to mess with it.
To answer your question, all I ever heard about this was (the rumor of) a
draft RFC. I couldn't find it though so wasn't able to confirm. (That
was about 5 months ago).
Jack
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Matt Hempel wrote:
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> Hello
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> Has anyone ever attempted to create a geographical database of networks?
> In other words, zone the world into pertinent, well-known blocks and do a
> network->zone key->value pair.
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> --matt hempel
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