Re: Resolving geo discussions

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@yahoo.com>]

Hi I just joined this list but I'm going to be bold and jump right in. 
I've been searching for a good home for my thoughts and questions about 
community wireless networking; mesh networking; geographic routing; and 
the IETF. Perhaps this is the right place?

> Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > If it's just "if you're going to do geo, beware of ..." I'll be happy
> > to include something like that in the upcoming rewrite of my draft.
As someone who is working in the CWN community to try to develop (or at 
least conceptualize) a good mesh routing solution (with a non-mobile 
network...), we are looking at geographic routing. I am aware of
    http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hain-ipv6-pi-addr-04.txt

what is the address for your draft / other drafts on the topic?

Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I think it needs to build on the observation that there is no 
> congruence
> between network topology and geography to show that we have no way to 
> make
> geo addresses aggregate in practice.
Yes, this is where the key aspect of CWN differes from the regular 
wired internet. The community wireless nets are building out using 
Wi-fi so there are some statements that can be made about the maximum 
range of any given point-to-point link. One is simply curvature of the 
earth, a maximum line of sight range is IIRC about 50km given a 
reasonably high tower at each end barring mountain tops etc. (and even 
then there are limits).

simon