[76046] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sensible geographical addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Tue Nov 30 09:58:30 2004
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:57:58 -0800 (PST)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OFFCEC9B37.039C9494-ON80256F5C.004D8649-80256F5C.004F78E5@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--- Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> 10 years ago we didn't have the RIR system in
> place to help us with geographic addressing. Today
> we do. Now you might be able to convince me that
> we could achieve similar goals by putting together
> route registries, RIRs and some magic pixie dust.
> As far as I'm concerned, geographical route
> aggregation
> is necessary for the v6 network to scale. It will
> happen, the only question is how we solve the
> problem.
>
What exactly would be so bad about taking a page from
the PSTN and using a country-code-like system? There
are under 200 countries on the whole planet, so that's
not a huge number of bits...
=====
David Barak
-fully RFC 1925 compliant-
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