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. -- SunOSish, adj: requiring | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 32-bit bug numbers. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu