On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
geographic location doesn't map to topology
In orbital line of sight (LoS) constellations and wireless meshes, yes. Arguably there's a cost function over fiber laid as well, e.g. long-distance fiber runs typically follow a geodesic. Of course over short distances relativistic ping isn't a necessarily good metric for distance. However, when deploying a geographically routed network with address assignment/refinement from mutual relativistic ping triangulation there would be incentive that topology follows geography. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE