[76056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sensible geographical addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue Nov 30 13:27:27 2004
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:21:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041130145758.80795.qmail@web14922.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, David Barak 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...
...and what if you're operating in fifteen of them? Do you _really_ want
to be told by _clueless regulators_ in each country what address space
you'll route where? Do you really want to be told which other countries
IPv6 prefixes you'll policy-route to whom, inside your own network?
I thought not.
-Bill
