On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Walter O. Haas wrote:
Note that this results from the address being, not the property of the ISP or the end user, but rather of a geographic location. In other words under my scheme if I picked up and moved a hundred miles I'd have to renumber, but if I just switched ISPs I wouldn't.
The problem is that once you assign a group of IP numbers to a geographic region, and they're being used, then what happens with population shifts? For instance, let's say one county in South Dakota gets maybe a /22 block, and Silicon Valley gets a /6 block. What happens (hypothetically, of course) if all of South Dakota all of the sudden begins growing as a techology center? After you're out of address space, you're out... =) With IPng, assignment would be better possible, but right now, anything close is just improbable. /cah