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Re: Sensible geographical addressing

  • From: Bill Woodcock
  • Date: Tue Nov 30 13:28:10 2004

      On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, David Barak 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...

...and what if you're operating in fifteen of them?  Do you _really_ want
to be told by _clueless regulators_ in each country what address space
you'll route where?  Do you really want to be told which other countries
IPv6 prefixes you'll policy-route to whom, inside your own network?

I thought not.

                                -Bill