Sensible geographical addressing

Tue Nov 30 15:30:32 UTC 2004

--- Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:

> 
> David Barak <thegameiam at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > What exactly would be so bad about taking a page
> from the PSTN and
> > using a country-code-like system? There are under
> 200 countries on
> > the whole planet, so that's not a huge number of
> bits...
> 
> Not that this avoids renumbering, as countries do
> occasionally split
> or merge. Sometimes there's also address space
> exhaustion within a
> country and renumbering is required.
> 
> (I am reminded of a Londoner whining about "loads"
> of number changes
> since 1990. In fact, there have been just three: 01
> -> 071/081 ->
> 0171/0181 -> 020.)
> 

But if the "country ID" bits were always in a defined
place, the pain of renumbering due to country
merge/split could be mitigated.  In any case,
countries don't split or merge THAT much.

=====
David Barak
-fully RFC 1925 compliant-

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