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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 Check the followup on bigz. The summary is that the container is not the thing contained. -- --bill
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