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[email protected] wrote: This is where a sensible geographical addressing hierarchy This is broken by design. What would have happend if this had be done before the fiber glut in the late 90's? As far as I am aware a couple of new fiber routes have been build and a few more cities have become nodes. Anything that takes geography into the routing is plain and simple broken. Every now and then a new technology comes around and changes the landscape. Lets have a look at people transportation in the last century. First we had railroads and ships, then came the airplane. I fundamentally changed how you had to travel from inner Europe to the inner US. In the old days to get from Geneva, Switzerland to Chicago, USA, I had to go either to Rotterdam or Marseilles and then on a large ocean liner. Once in north America I could either take the railroad from NYC to Chicago or get on another ship to Chicago via the great lakes. Today you hop on a plane and fly directly and non-stop from Geneva Airport to Chicago O'Hare. And it takes only 12 hours instead of one to two weeks. Rotterdam and Marseilles have entirely lost their role as ports to the world for passenger transportation. The railroads going there too. Both sea ports are only used for containers and other cargo these days. Not that this is unimportant but it's no longer where people go or come by. I always thought it was only politicians with very dim memory of close and far history but this doesn't seem to be the case. Simply take all the proposals on the table, wind back 10 years, apply them and step forward until you reach the present day. Very effective technique but sadly seldomly used. -- Andre
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