On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:41, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:25:46AM -0400, William Herrin wrote: > >> 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
> I think the problem can be tackled by implementing this in > wireless last-mile networks owned and operated by end users. Interesting point, and the growth in municipal networks could help. But they are still a vast minority. Scott