On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:41, Eugen Leitl <eugen@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