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Re: Sensible geographical addressing
From: abuse () cabal org uk (Peter Corlett)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:08:47 +0000 (UTC)
David Barak <thegameiam () 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.) -- PGP key ID E85DC776 - finger abuse () mooli org uk for full key
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- Re: Sensible geographical addressing David Barak (Nov 30)
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- Re: Sensible geographical addressing [Was: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs yadda, yadda] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 30)
- RE: Sensible geographical addressing [Was: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs yadda, yadda] Scott Morris (Nov 30)
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