Re: Resolving geo discussions

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On zondag, apr 20, 2003, at 21:17 Europe/Amsterdam, S Woodside wrote:

> 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?
Probably not... You may want to check out the IETF mobile ad-hoc 
networking working group, that one focusses on IP over complex radio 
networks. See http://protean.itd.nrl.navy.mil/manet/manet_home.html

> 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?
My draft is about to expire or has already expired, but you can find it 
at http://www.muada.com/drafts/ along with the GAPI addressing draft.

I never quite envisioned general deployment of Tony Hain's geographic 
addressing, but it has one potentially useful property: it should be 
possible to aim antennas based on the addresses you communicate with. 
With the advent of "software" directional antennas this could be very 
interesting.

Do you guys do IPv6 on the community network yet?

Contact me off-list if you want to talk some more about this or the 
more mundane details of community wireless routing (I've always 
wondered how this is done in practice).

Iljitsch van Beijnum