[53460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Nov 14 21:59:32 2002
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:58:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0211150112160.11507-100000@meron.openu.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
