possibly noteworthy wrote: Are you ready to pay $100 a month for residential access to the Internet?
Decius replied: No, but issuing IP addresses based on geographic location is LONG overdue.
That isn't going to fix things. Report from the IAB Workshop on Routing and Addressing Workshop participants concluded that the so-called locator/identifier overload" of the IP address semantics is one of the causes of the routing scalability problem as we see today. Thus a "split" seems necessary to scale the routing system, although how to actually architect and implement such a split was not explored in detail. ... All identifier/locator split proposals require a mapping service that can return a set of locators corresponding to a given identifier. In addition, these proposals must also address the problem of detecting locator failures and redirecting data flows to remaining locators for a multihomed site. The locator-identifier split represents a fundamental architectural issue and IAB should lead the investigation into understanding of both how to make this architectural change and the overall impact of the change.
See also, Brief Update on The IAB Routing and Addressing Workshop: deaggregation, multihoming, traffic engineering, power hunger and heat death; "a solution to id/loc split might help solve multihoming and mobility"; Need to find ways to a sustainable future rather than point fixes
The power issue is serious
What if we do try to untangle identities and locators?
Workshop on Locator/Identifier Split The locator/identifier split is actually a far-reaching change to the Internet architecture, with many tendrils.
Do we need a new network model? Who Are You? Identity and Location in IP, by Geoff Huston, APNIC RE: Looming Issues in Internet Architecture | 
