>> Care to explain what that could possibly be? (I simply don't see an >> upside to making it easy to censor the internet by national identity). > > Maintenance of "GeoIP"-databases becomes easier and less error-prone ? > > Possible less out of date because of it. > > We've seen complaints about those many times on this list.
There are much better ways to handle geolocation than reconfiguring the structure of the IP address space. See also: <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/geopriv/> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-lis-discovery> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-held-identity-extensions> Regardless of the technical merits of those specific protocols, which have been debated here and elsewhere, geolocation is an application-layer concept, and shouldn't be forced down onto the network layer. --Richard