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Re: [RRG] Topology that follows addressing



Hi,

Sorry for jumping in the middle of the thread

[It seems that I can't reasonably quote anything from your message that shows the core idea.]
I understand this to be geographic routing, which goes even further  
than the geographic aggregation that is pretty much rejected out of  
hand whenever it comes up within the IETF (which is every couple of  
years or so).
Not sure what "geographic aggregation" you're referring to, but here is one that seems to work and avoids the pitfalls you mentioned bellow:
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rveloso/papers/giro.pdf

Comments are appreciated.
Thanks,

--Ricardo



Unless I'm mistaken, the idea is that geographic proximity equals  
topological proximity. I'm afraid that can't work in a wired  
network. If I'm in Holland I'm closer to Scotland than when I'm in  
Belgium. But if I want to travel to Scotland through the channel  
tunnel, I need to go through Belgium. So I need to get farther  
geographically to get closer topologically.
The way to solve this would be to lift the geo/topo alignment  
requirement as soon as you reach a certain zoom level. But then  
there's the traditional argument against geographic aggregation:  
how do you avoid ISPs having to carry traffic for free? In other  
words: who announces the aggregates to the rest of the world?
Are you familiar with Tony Hain's draft about geographic addressing?

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