Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation

[Tony Li <tli () juniper net>]

   Another way to say it is that monopoly is necessary to take
   advantage of geographic addressing.  Baby Bells do that now
   (with the area codes).  I'm wondering what is their idea of
   migrating into competitive market (centralized database?) 

My understanding is that they used mandated exchange points to deal with
the deregulation of IXC's, but this only solves one half of the problem.  

Tony