[151304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brim)
Thu Mar 15 10:46:27 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120315144135.GL9891@leitl.org>
From: Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:44:59 -0400
To: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
