On 2008-07-11 16:19, William Herrin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Brian E Carpenter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
That makes sense, unless they are all funded pro bono. Basically, it would only work in a non-competitive economy. (What does that remind me of? Oh yes, the telephone system pre-liberalisation.) Brian -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
