Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-intarea-shared-addressing-issues-02

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Thu, 03 February 2011 21:53 UTC

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Fernando Gont wrote:

> The fact that geo-location was not considered in the IP design, is
> irrelevant. As noted, IP wasn't meant for production, either.

As the address sharing occurs only at the edge, it is quite
unlikely that geo location approximation breaks.

You can assume hosts sharing an address have the same location,
much more safely than assume hosts in a /24 address range have
the same location.

						Masataka Ohta