Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation

["Kent W. England" <kwe () geo net>]

At 10:25 AM 17-11-97 -0500, Sean M. Doran wrote:
> ...  Hierarchical routing is the only known means of
> scaling IP addresses as they exist now, and therefore the
> only hierarchy that can be imposed on IP addresses is
> strictly topological.

This is true, but the definition of the top of the hierarchy is arbitrary
and is the nexus of the debate about "topological" versus geographical
addressing, which I interpret as "ISP at top" versus "exchange point at
top" hierarchies. Both are valid topological hierarchies.

--Kent