Sensible geographical addressing
Bill Woodcock
woody at pch.net
Tue Nov 30 18:21:28 UTC 2004
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, David Barak 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...
...and what if you're operating in fifteen of them? Do you _really_ want
to be told by _clueless regulators_ in each country what address space
you'll route where? Do you really want to be told which other countries
IPv6 prefixes you'll policy-route to whom, inside your own network?
I thought not.
-Bill
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