On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Morlock Elloi wrote: > > 1. large wifi networks start to hit scaling problems - they start to need > > routers and name services that are relatively expensive, and ip address
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. > > ranges start to become a scarce resource. Actually, even a MAC has enough address space to label entire Earth surface with ~1 address/m^2, IPv6 addresses are plenty better here. And of course no one forces you to use actual IP addresses. You can sure tunnel TCP/IP through a geographic routing protocol. > Not so. Self-organasing mesh networks appear to have some interesting > properties. There is a number of open solutions and at least one startup I know > about based on this.