This is true for non-geographic markets, but what happens when the Internet reaches a size where geographic markets develop?

In other words, when it makes sense to buy pizza on the Net, won't it make sense to revive geographic naming, to serve geographic markets?

There are also organizations, such as ours, which cannot sanely aggregate traffic on a geographic measure, since a single gateway to a corporate network (which may span the globe) may be located in Duluth. We simply cannot sanely assign networks on a geographical basis. This would be farcical. CIDR'isation in this case would be on a corporate/organizational level. In this thread, no one has yet mentoned this particular issue. i realize that this has _no_ impact on domain naming, yet it is indeed an issue which has been overlooked by most providers. - paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul Ferguson US Sprint tel: 703.689.6828 Managed Network Engineering internet: paul@hawk.sprintmrn.com Reston, Virginia USA http://www.sprintmrn.com