Re: [BAWUG] IETF & CWN

[S Woodside]

I think that you might be missing my point about the ASN. I'm talking 
about a viral internet, where the mesh grows without central control. 
So it may well be that there is no authority that actually purchases 
the ASN. In fact ideally not. Ideally extending the reach of the 
internet is just a matter of plugging in a box that has line-of-sight 
to at least one other node in the wireless mesh. And then the next 
person and so on.

Perhaps we should be looking to the P2P networks at how they handle 
these problems. There must be similarities.

setting up multihoming is hard enough when you are a big corp
or an ISP and you can isolate the borders. I'm talking about an
(inter)net with a potentially ever-expanding edge, where leafs can 
turn
into nodes
That's what the Internet is, and it works fine, and it's not hard to 
do.
If you think it's hard, god help us if you try to make it easier for 
us by
changing protocols.
It may not be hard for an network engineer. "Not hard to do" isn't good 
enough (at the individual scale) it needs to be trivial.

simon

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