Re: [RRG] Geographic aggregation-based routing

["William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, [geographic routing will] work just fine if you deploy a municipally-funded,
> neutral and zero-fee IXP in every population centre. Admittedly,
> that changes the entire economic structure of the network...

Brian,

As it turns out, even that wouldn't be good enough. Take a look at the
example I gave. You'd also need to single-source all the links between
the IXPs so that regardless of which links the packet travels between
them, you pay the same entity.

Regards,
Bill


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