> > Geographic routing completely eliminates need for expensive routing > > and admin traffic. Name services? Who needs name services? Localhost > > is sufficient for a prefix to an address namepace. > without routing and name services, you have what amounts to a propriatory > NAT solution - no way to address an interior node on the cloud from the
The importance of geographic routing is that the cataloguing system is public. Imagine that city streets had absolutely no signs and no house numbers. In order to get to, say, "quality whorehouse", you need to pay for someone to guide you, and ultimately that someone may choose not to. If, however, streets were marked, you could use maps from many sources - or even create your own - to guide you. Localities put up the addressing infrastructure and they get aggregated on global levels in any desireable/sellable form. Compare this to Internet, where you essentially have to pay to get routed via closed systems. >These characters< were routed based on decisions and policies of no more than 2-3 corporations. We all know what the consequences are. Self-routing mesh networks have potential to sidestep this. Transistors are small and cheap enough even today - the centralised communication infrastructure is there so that you can be charged, not because technology dictates that any more. With wireless there is a potential that everyone paves (and marks street number) in front of their house. The only way to subvert this would be to erase "santa monica" from minds of everyone. I don't see that happening. The day that I can send a packet from LAX to SFO via non-ISP-ed network will be the beginning of the end of telco/telecom monopolies. Or, should I say, directory monopolies. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
