--- Peter Corlett <abuse@cabal.org.uk> wrote:
David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com> 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