[975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Address clustering intuition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dixon)
Fri Nov 10 02:25:00 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 23:17:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
cc: "Walter O. Haas" <haas@xmission.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511091820.MAA03934@gaijin.mid.net>
On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Alan Hannan wrote:
> ] 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.
>
> While this would perhaps increase the 'possibility' of aggregation
> increase, it ignores the fact that networks are laid out w/ wires
> and planned logically wrt tariff issues and existing infrastructure
> and capacity.
I don't see that this is relevant. If I call PacBell in San Jose,
it's a 408 number. In San Francisco, it's a 415 number. What does
this have to do with wires etc? The point is that every telephone
company knows where 408 is and how to route traffic to it.
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