Re: geo short vs long term? [Re: Geo pros and cons]

["Michael H. Lambert" <lambert@psc.edu>]

Noel,

Since you have more historical context than many of us on the list, could 
you please summarize the arguments which have been used against geo?  I 
suspect that they are mainly financial and political, but there might be 
technical issues I'm unaware of.

Thanks,

Michael

--On Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:37 -0500 "J. Noel Chiappa" 
<jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> Geographic addressing has been discussed extensively about 17 times in the
> IETF, and every time it has been rejected. Discussing it one more time is
> not going to change this. There is *never* going to be a rough consensus
> *in favour of* geographic addressing. There will *always* be a lot of
> people against it - enough to stop it in the proposal stage.