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Roger Jorgensen
rogerj at jorgensen.no
Wed Feb 23 15:15:56 CET 2005
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 23-feb-05, at 14:14, Gert Doering wrote: > >> 1) Which parts of the community rejected the doc in its previous > >> incarnation and why? > > > It was mostly disliked because of the use of a global common address > > pool, which means that you give up any chance to be able to > > filter/aggregate > > on region boundaries ("why do I need to know any details about ASes > > located outside my region?") - whether or not someone is doing this > > today > > doesn't matter, but it was felt that it shouldn't be made impossible > > right from the start. > > I'm sorry, but I have to object here. > > The notion that divvying up the globe into four or five parts in order > to save on routing table expenditures in nonsense. Either filtering out > "far away" information is a good idea, and then we should do it right, > or it isn't, and then we don't need to do it at all. > > By doing it right I mean putting several layers of geographical > hierarchy into addresses. In Europe, this would mean at least the > country level, in large countries like the US, China and India the > state/province level. Geo-addressing, I think it would be a great idea! next step would be geographical based routing... even better. -- ------------------------------ Roger Jorgensen | rogerj at stud.cs.uit.no | - IPv6 is The Key! http://www.jorgensen.no | roger at jorgensen.no -------------------------------------------------------
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