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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: geographical database of networks
I'll read into that ... My idea is that if you know the geographic source of a route, you can make cold-potato routing decisions while still receiving full advertisements from your peers at each peering point. Every advertised route could be matched against a ruleset which attaches preference to it based on distance. --matt On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jack Crowder wrote: > Two words: IP Mobility. I always thought it was more marketing than > content but that doesn't stop some applications from being developed to > use it. > > My guess would be that you'd have more trouble getting people to agree on > how the 'carve' would happen than the implementation. Then of course > there are the hackers who would love to mess with it. > > To answer your question, all I ever heard about this was (the rumor of) a > draft RFC. I couldn't find it though so wasn't able to confirm. (That > was about 5 months ago). > Jack > > On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Matt Hempel wrote: > > > > > > > Hello > > > > Has anyone ever attempted to create a geographical database of networks? > > In other words, zone the world into pertinent, well-known blocks and do a > > network->zone key->value pair. > > > > --matt hempel > > > > > > >
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