15 Nov
2002
15 Nov
'02
2:58 a.m.
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
VA> > 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. VA> VA> Peering every 100 sq km is absolutely infeasible. Just think of the VA> number of alternative paths routing algorithms wil lhave to consider. VA> VA> Anything like that would require serious redesign of Internet's routing VA> architecture.
What about:
IPv6 with hierarchial(sp?) geographical allocation ?
BGP with some kind of tag limiting it to <N> AS hops ? ( say N=2 or N=3? )
I can think of several ways to do it, but all of them amount to significant change from how things are being done in the current generation of backbones. --vadim