[92219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [routing-wg]BGP Update Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Sep 11 13:56:34 2006
In-Reply-To: <200609111031.k8BAVN9P029717@alpha.bartels.de>
Cc: "Gert Doering" <gert@space.net>,
"cidr-report@potaroo.net" <cidr-report@potaroo.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"routing-wg@ripe.net" <routing-wg@ripe.net>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:52:18 -0400
To: "Oliver Bartels" <oliver@bartels.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hello;
On Sep 11, 2006, at 6:32 AM, Oliver Bartels wrote:
> Hi Gert,
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:06:00 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
>> Ummm, well, this is a damn fast plane if it will reach another
>> continent
>> 1843 times per day (or even "per week")... - which should be the only
>> time the BGP announcement moves.
>>
>> Sounds more like "the BGP-follows-plane system has some stability
>> problems".
>
> Nack.
>
> Probably they are using low or medium earth orbit satellites, which
> _are_ damn fast in orbit. Otherwise the round trip time would be
> unacceptably high.
>
I believe that all Connexion support is / was from geostationary
satellites.
> As the whole thing is 3D, some of them might have contact to
> ground stations on this or the other side of the great lake,
> depending on their 3D position, even thru the plane travels
> on a well defined track (probably a 3D circle, too) in just one
> direction only.
>
> Ceterum censeo: Nevertheless this moving-clients application shows
> some demand for a true-location-independend IP-addresses
> announcement feature (provider independend "roaming") in IPv6,
> as in v4 (even thru this isn't the "standard" way, but Connexion is
> anything but standard). Shim etc. is not sufficient ...
>
That seems like a reasonable conclusion.
> Kind Regards
> Oliver
Regards
Marshall
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