Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Running out of Internet addresses?
Message-ID: <1988Dec5.201903.4499@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8811282038.AA15464@vax.ftp.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 20:19:03 GMT

In article <8811282038.AA15464@vax.ftp.com> stev@VAX.FTP.COM writes:
>if we are talking about this (and it seems we are), we also wanna think 
>about issuing newtalk-IP addresses based on location instead of political
>boundries like they are now. i am not sure that this is the correct
>way to go, but routing becomes alot easier.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't grasp this -- can you explain?  The
current scheme, which breaks them by network, is in effect pretty much
a geographic breakdown.  In the cases where it's not, e.g. organizations
with their own long-haul networks, it is not obvious that a geographic
breakdown is in fact desired:  the right way to get from one AT&T site
to another, for example, is almost always through AT&T's internal nets,
and never mind the geography.  There is no general correlation between
geographic proximity and network-routing proximity.
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