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In message <[email protected]>, Scott A Crosby writes: > > >I don't know, but at least reading this IEEE Spectrum article: >http://www.ece.umr.edu/courses/f02/ee207/spectrum/Grid/ implies that >long distance transmission is full of strange and nonlinear effects >such as 'reactive power', voltage support, and other technical >concepts that made me conclude that there are nasty details that are >not widely known. > Precisely. Or, to put it in NANOG terms, would you trust a power engineer to design BGP 5? After all, we all know the limitations of BGP 4, and it seems pretty obvious how to do routing -- just look for least-cost paths... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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