[76048] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sensible geographical addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Morris)
Tue Nov 30 10:22:57 2004
Reply-To: <swm@emanon.com>
From: "Scott Morris" <swm@emanon.com>
To: "'David Barak'" <thegameiam@yahoo.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:22:12 -0500
In-reply-to: <20041130145758.80795.qmail@web14922.mail.yahoo.com>
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3 bits as a prefix would work perfectly fine IMHO.
This gives us an entire 32-bit space PER CONTINENT. As I noted before I
don't think the penguins really need that many Ips in Antartica, but =
that
could always be set aside. In addition, there's an extra set (only 7
continents at last count) for extra-terrestrial expansion or other =
needs.
And, that gives the ability to filter entire continents out if =
necessary.
The country code (ITU) isn't really a bad idea either, but I'm just =
thinking
less overall binary bits.
Scott=20
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
David Barak
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:58 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Sensible geographical addressing
--- Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> 10 years ago we didn't have the RIR system in place to help us with=20
> geographic addressing. Today we do. Now you might be able to convince=20
> me that we could achieve similar goals by putting together route=20
> registries, RIRs and some magic pixie dust.
> As far as I'm concerned, geographical route aggregation is necessary=20
> for the v6 network to scale. It will happen, the only question is how=20
> we solve the problem.
>=20
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...
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David Barak
-fully RFC 1925 compliant-
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