At 04:21 PM 11/6/97 -0500, Richard Irving wrote:
Correction: Not allocating in a topological fashion lends to deaggregation. Geography often has nothing to do with it.
We are talking the *world* here,
Duh. And geography is *not* important. I can show you several organizational networks located in one country, with their principle Internet connectivity located in another country entirely. Geographic location means absolutely nothing. It is where they connect in the global hierarchy. In the example above, if addresses are allocated solely based on geographic criteria, I can assure you that you will have a much, much larger number of prefixes in the global routing table. Why do you think that the allocating authorities automagically ask requesters to first ask their upstreams for address space? - paul