30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
10:08 a.m.
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.) -- PGP key ID E85DC776 - finger abuse@mooli.org.uk for full key