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> > This is true for non-geographic markets, but what happens when the Internet > reaches a size where geographic markets develop? > > In other words, when it makes sense to buy pizza on the Net, won't it make > sense to revive geographic naming, to serve geographic markets? > There are also organizations, such as ours, which cannot sanely aggregate traffic on a geographic measure, since a single gateway to a corporate network (which may span the globe) may be located in Duluth. We simply cannot sanely assign networks on a geographical basis. This would be farcical. CIDR'isation in this case would be on a corporate/organizational level. In this thread, no one has yet mentoned this particular issue. i realize that this has _no_ impact on domain naming, yet it is indeed an issue which has been overlooked by most providers. - paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul Ferguson US Sprint tel: 703.689.6828 Managed Network Engineering internet: [email protected] Reston, Virginia USA http://www.sprintmrn.com
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