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--- Peter Corlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > David Barak <[email protected]> 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.) > But if the "country ID" bits were always in a defined place, the pain of renumbering due to country merge/split could be mitigated. In any case, countries don't split or merge THAT much. ===== David Barak -fully RFC 1925 compliant- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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