[959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Address clustering intuition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Thu Nov 9 14:51:00 1995
From: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
To: haas@xmission.com (Walter O. Haas)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 14:13:44 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511091716.KAA03134@xmission.xmission.com> from "Walter O. Haas" at Nov 9, 95 10:16:39 am
> 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.
This turns out not to be the case at all. See the big-internet archives
for lots of messages on this.
--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
