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Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation


From: Vadim Antonov <avg () pluris com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:37:27 -0800

Tony Li wrote:

True, however, geographic addressing has some rather severe practical
problems.  The exchange point at the top becomes a single point of
failure.  So it needs replication.  But then, there needs to be
interconnect between the exchange points.  Who provides it?

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?) 

--vadim


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