[rrg] NANOG44 session on current IP address challenges

[HeinerHummel at aol.com]

Interesting: "we must not depend on DNS to bootstrap the core operation of  
the system".
 
(I recommend reading Douglas R. Hofstadter's "Goedel, Escher, Bach - an  
eternal braid" and what he writes about viewing an information system from  inside 
and from OUTSIDE.)
 
All my emails try to tell that the scalability problem is self-made and  that 
there is no need to keep up with it.
I cannot offer a solution which restricts excessiveness, only which does  
away with the whole problem.
 
Admitted, my TARA-solution depends on DNS extensions according to  
experimental RFC 1712.
But sure, geographical coordinates are provided by GPS.   By DNS  would be an 
artificial indirection:
At first DNS needs to get the (egress) router's geographical  coordinates and 
assign them to each (destination) IP address so that it can  be looked up 
later.
However, imagine:
The destination is given by the geographical coordinates of the egress  
router plus the user's name !
A Lookup-packet is sent to this egress router and returned is a local  user's 
(address-) number! 
 
Thereafter, the IP flow is forwarded based on a derived  "geo-location-id" 
while also containing the destination's  (address-)number.
 
Benefit: The core operation does not depend on DNS either.
 
Note: This summer I wanted to go for vacation to some place in Italy and  
upon asking how to get there they just sent me their geographical coordinates.  
Shouldn't the internet catch up with ?
 
Heiner
 
 
 
 
In einer eMail vom 20.10.2008 23:56:31 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt  
lixia at CS.UCLA.EDU:

There  was a joint NANOG/ARIN session last week on
"Moderated Panel:  What Would Jon have Done About the Addressing
Challenges  Currently Facing Us?"

this was the last session on NANOG-44  agenda
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/agenda.php
All talk slides are  online, and I thought they might be interesting to  
at least some RRG  people
My talk is  at
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/presentations/Wednesday/Zhang_Wed_N44.pd
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FYI,
Lixia
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