The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
Alex Bligh
alex at alex.org.uk
Sat Sep 29 10:09:33 UTC 2001
--On Friday, 28 September, 2001 10:12 PM -0400 Sean Donelan
<sean at donelan.com> wrote:
> Of course, we could adopt geographic allocations. North American is
> still working on (+1) in e.164 space. We could shrink the global
> route table to a few thousand routes.
We have this at a continental level. At less than a continental
level the argument against this is that at lower distances there
is a poorer and poorer map between geographic proximity and
(network) topological proximity. Pick any major US city without
a popular peering point / private peering for a trivial example.
Alex Bligh
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