Re: The banding problem, or Pretend You're a Router

From: Roedy Green (look-on_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:28:30 GMT

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:08:56 GMT, Roedy Green
<look-on@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote or quoted :

>A router in IPv6 has packets coming in each labelled with an 128-bit
>destination.
 
If IP addresses were assigned strictly geographically, it would
simplify the routing tables. You might by default get a geographic ip
created by interleaving the latitude and longitude bits of your GPS
location. This IP could automatically belong to you simply because
you occupy that space grid. Geographic IPs could be carved out of a
small fraction of the entire 128-bit address space.

The problem then is you still can have dozens of wireless companies
serving the same physical location. You need some intermediate bits
in there to encode the carrier. 

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