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Re: Address clustering intuition
- From: Craig A. Huegen
- Date: Thu Nov 09 15:07:48 1995
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
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