[76075] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sensible geographical addressing [Was: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs yadda, yadda]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Morris)
Tue Nov 30 19:43:36 2004
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From: "Scott Morris" <swm@emanon.com>
To: "'Iljitsch van Beijnum'" <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: "'NANOG list'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:43:05 -0500
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Because then the specificity of the routes would become less relevant. If
you have two highways available to you, then it's 6 of one and half dozen of
another. You could care less which way you go.
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Iljitsch van Beijnum
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Subject: Re: Sensible geographical addressing [Was: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs yadda,
yadda]
On 30-nov-04, at 23:32, Scott Morris wrote:
> At large NAP points (the higher order ISP's) this may make some sense
> because of the ubiquity of larger scale lines.
Why would geographical aggregation need bigger lines?