[956] in North American Network Operators' Group
Address clustering intuition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter O. Haas)
Thu Nov 9 12:24:42 1995
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 10:16:39 -0700
From: "Walter O. Haas" <haas@xmission.com>
This has probably been thought of before, or discussed on some other list,
and if so I apologize in advance.
I've formed an intuition that, if all IP addresses were portable (ie.
independent of ISP) and assigned on a strictly geographic basis, then
there would *automatically* be clustering of addresses equivalent to
that obtained from CIDRization as a result of marketplace forces and
the practicalities of technology.
Note that this results from the address being, not the property of the
ISP or the end user, but rather of a geographic location. In other words
under my scheme if I picked up and moved a hundred miles I'd have to
renumber, but if I just switched ISPs I wouldn't.
-- Walt
