[2269] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Are We to Buy Speed for a Few or Connectivity for Many?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Poulsen)
Mon Feb 3 16:55:38 1992
From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 21:53:53 GMT
Apparently-To: com-priv@psi.com
> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 12:17:44 PST
> From: "John Gong" <jgong@us.oracle.com>
>
> It's too late to slice the IP address space into anything with
> geographic significance, but the "next great network" address
> space could possibly be keyed with time zones? Just a
> not-altogether-silly thought.
There is a certain other protocol-defining authority which has suggested
something similar: Network addresses should be keyed off 3-digit country
codes.
In practice, this did not provide much useful routing information. For a
while, the best route from one European country to its neighbor almost
always went through California.
--
/ Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer
CMC Rockwell lars@CMC.COM
