In this case only the Mobile Country Code is used. Just like in CCS7 for D-Star and DMR stations.
(Yes, some countries have several Mobile Country Codes and some don't. I haven't done any research if the number of MNCs correlates to the size of the country/the population, so I don't say the system provides a faire distribution, but it comes closer than using 1 same length identifier for every country.)
Also incorporating the subnet into the ASN might not fly everywhere, as some border routers may announce several prefixes on behalf of other routers (not capable of BGP).
73 de Marc, LX1DUC
On 2015-12-10 10:04, Pedja YT9TP wrote:
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On 10.12.2015. 09:16, Marius Petrescu wrote:
The E.212 mobile network codes (MNC) are well established and assigned by ITU. They are the codes used by mobile phone operators to uniquely identify their networks world wide.
When I fist read this information about using these codes for ASN i thought it was odd. Why use mobile network codes when almost each country has several mobile network provider, meaning several network codes? That is confusing.
Why not using country codes, or even better, to stay in amateur radio, DXCC entity codes. That would provide single code for each country (or entity).
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Pedja YT9TP
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