On 8/26/11 08:04 , Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote: >> From: Adam Novak [interfect@xxxxxxxxx] >> >> "Say I wanted to send data to my friend in the flat next to mine. It is >> idiotic that nowadays, I would use the bottleneck subscriber line to >> my upstream ISP and my crippled upload speed and push it all the way >> across their infrastructure to my neighbors ISP and back to the Wifi >> router in reach of mine." there are other ways for devices with proximity to discover each other and establish a relationship than via existing networks. > This is a valid point, but it's also rather rare that one wants to > send large amounts of data directly to a friend in a neighboring flat > but one has not manually adjusting the local routing to take that into > account. > >> If each home or mobile device was essentially [its] own autonomous >> system, what would this do to routing table size? To ASN space >> utilization? > > There must be at least a few hundred million mobile phones with data > capability, and a similar number of homes and small businesses with > WiFi systems. So we can estimate that a large fraction of a billion > entries would be added to the routing tables. How would that work? putting device mobility into the DFZ is just dumb. it was a fairly bad idea when boeing did it and at any kind of scale it would be still more obvious. > Dale > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf