[76050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sensible geographical addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Tue Nov 30 10:34:59 2004
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:30:32 -0800 (PST)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <coi2dv$10g$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--- Peter Corlett <abuse@cabal.org.uk> wrote:
>
> David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > 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...
>
> Not that this avoids renumbering, as countries do
> occasionally split
> or merge. Sometimes there's also address space
> exhaustion within a
> country and renumbering is required.
>
> (I am reminded of a Londoner whining about "loads"
> of number changes
> since 1990. In fact, there have been just three: 01
> -> 071/081 ->
> 0171/0181 -> 020.)
>
But if the "country ID" bits were always in a defined
place, the pain of renumbering due to country
merge/split could be mitigated. In any case,
countries don't split or merge THAT much.
=====
David Barak
-fully RFC 1925 compliant-
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