On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:28:49AM -0700, Vince Fuller wrote:
One might also imagine that more globally-friendly way to implement this would have been to build a network (VPN would be adequate) between the ground stations and assign each plane a prefix out of a block whose subnets are only dynamically advertsed within that network/VPN. Doing that would prevent the rest of the global Internet from having to track 1000+ routing changes per prefix per day as satellite handoffs are performed.
As has been said before, and is also readable in that blog entry: the system is supposed to create *one* advertisement change when the plane is crossing from the "Europe" to the "US" ground station (etc.), not 1000+.
The comment still applies. Imagine that this system were implemented globally on all international/intercontinental air routes. It would still be nice to avoid having each of those airplanes cause a globally-visible routing update whenever it crosses some geographical boundary. --Vince