Interesting: "we must not depend on DNS to bootstrap the core operation of the system". (I recommend reading Douglas R. Hofstadter's "Goedel, Escher, Bach - an eternal braid" and what he writes about viewing an information system from inside and from OUTSIDE.) All my emails try to tell that the scalability problem is self-made and that there is no need to keep up with it. I cannot offer a solution which restricts excessiveness, only which does away with the whole problem. Admitted, my TARA-solution depends on DNS extensions according to experimental RFC 1712. But sure, geographical coordinates are provided by GPS. By DNS would be an artificial indirection: At first DNS needs to get the (egress) router's geographical coordinates and assign them to each (destination) IP address so that it can be looked up later. However, imagine: The destination is given by the geographical coordinates of the egress router plus the user's name ! A Lookup-packet is sent to this egress router and returned is a local user's (address-) number! Thereafter, the IP flow is forwarded based on a derived "geo-location-id" while also containing the destination's (address-)number. Benefit: The core operation does not depend on DNS either. Note: This summer I wanted to go for vacation to some place in Italy and upon asking how to get there they just sent me their geographical coordinates. Shouldn't the internet catch up with ? Heiner In einer eMail vom 20.10.2008 23:56:31 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There was a joint NANOG/ARIN session last week on "Moderated Panel: What Would Jon have Done About the Addressing Challenges Currently Facing Us?" this was the last session on NANOG-44 agenda http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/agenda.php All talk slides are online, and I thought they might be interesting to at least some RRG people My talk is at http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/presentations/Wednesday/Zhang_Wed_N44.pd f FYI, Lixia _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
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