On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:57:10PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: >> >> That's one reason why we should stay away from IPv6. >> > What prevents you from using >> > http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html >> > with IPv6? >> >> Though I didn't paid $32 to read the full paper, it's like >> a proposal of geography based addressing. > > You can access the free full text at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.0267v2.pdf
Hi Eugen, Geographic routing strategies have been all but proven to irredeemably violate the recursive commercial payment relationships which create the Internet's topology. In other words, they always end up stealing bandwidth on links for which neither the source of the packet nor it's destination have paid for a right to use. This is documented in a 2008 Routing Research Group thread. http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/rrg/2008/msg01781.html If you have a new geographic routing strategy you'd like to table for consideration, start by proving it doesn't share the problem. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
