[75690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Nov 20 21:49:16 2004
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:47:46 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3CA965B9-3AEF-11D9-992B-000A95CD987A@muada.com>
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> And don't forget that you still have to change your phone number when you
> move a great enough distance. In IP we somehow feel it's important that
> there are no geographical constraint on address use at all. That's a
> shame, because even if we aggregate by contintent that would save up to
> four times in the number of entries in the routing table of any router.
>
Not necessarily true. I live in California. However, 703-842-5527 is a
valid phone number for me. It even worked for me while I was in Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico. I can take that number pretty much any where in the
world, whether temporarily, or, even if I move there. Some exceptions
would be the few countries that are attempting to block or make VOIP
illegal, but, otherwise, I can pretty much take a VOIP phone number
anywhere I like.
Additionally, through FXP, you can take other numbers different places
as well.
However, I agree these are exceptions, not the general case. Nonetheless,
the problem can be solved. I bet companies would be more willing to
renumber when switching physical locations than they are to renumber
when switching carriers at the same physical location.
Owen
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