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

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On donderdag, apr 3, 2003, at 14:37 Europe/Amsterdam, J. Noel Chiappa 
wrote:

> Look, everyone, this is all really stupid.
> 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.
If we sail too far to the west we fall off the earth and bumblebees 
can't fly.

Since explaining it all again is unlikely to make a difference, I'll 
just observe that none of the objections I've heard to date include a 
part where they show "if you implement this, under reasonable 
real-world conditions W and X, router Y will need a routing table of Z 
routes, which is too large".