[25188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: geographical database of networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Hempel)
Thu Sep 23 15:06:53 1999
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:02:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Hempel <mhempel@aestus.net>
To: Jack Crowder <monterey@spies.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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I'll read into that ...
My idea is that if you know the geographic source of a route, you can make
cold-potato routing decisions while still receiving full advertisements
from your peers at each peering point. Every advertised route could be
matched against a ruleset which attaches preference to it based on
distance.
--matt
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jack Crowder wrote:
> Two words: IP Mobility. I always thought it was more marketing than
> content but that doesn't stop some applications from being developed to
> use it.
>
> My guess would be that you'd have more trouble getting people to agree on
> how the 'carve' would happen than the implementation. Then of course
> there are the hackers who would love to mess with it.
>
> To answer your question, all I ever heard about this was (the rumor of) a
> draft RFC. I couldn't find it though so wasn't able to confirm. (That
> was about 5 months ago).
> Jack
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Matt Hempel wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > Has anyone ever attempted to create a geographical database of networks?
> > In other words, zone the world into pertinent, well-known blocks and do a
> > network->zone key->value pair.
> >
> > --matt hempel
> >
> >
> >
>
