[158239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Nov 26 19:57:00 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAK__Kzv6GsQ1scxT1Gwu0-TPy4a_uVHWA4cr2eo88z_wi-fAEg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:53:46 -0800
To: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 26, 2012, at 14:51 , George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> The utility of this is somewhat moderated by limited geographical
> mobility while a phone's active in a single session. One rarely
> drives from San Francisco to LA typing all the way on their smartphone
> data connection, for example.
>=20
That's true to a limited extent today.
It's not likely to remain true.
(No, it won't be the driver typing on their smartphone data connection, =
but
it will be the busload or high-speed trainload of people typing, gaming, =
etc.
all the way from SF to LA and/or other non-interactive data usages that =
are
becoming more and more prevalent.
Further, the speed of handoffs will have to get faster and the address =
stability
area larger as that starts to include things like airplanes.
Owen
