[routing-wg]BGP Update Report

Mon Sep 11 17:52:18 UTC 2006

Hello;

On Sep 11, 2006, at 6:32 AM, Oliver Bartels wrote:

> Hi Gert,
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:06:00 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
>> Ummm, well, this is a damn fast plane if it will reach another  
>> continent
>> 1843 times per day (or even "per week")... - which should be the only
>> time the BGP announcement moves.
>>
>> Sounds more like "the BGP-follows-plane system has some stability  
>> problems".
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> Nack.
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> Probably they are using low or medium earth orbit satellites, which
> _are_ damn fast in orbit. Otherwise the round trip time would be
> unacceptably high.
>

I believe that all Connexion support is / was from geostationary  
satellites.

> As the whole thing is 3D, some of them might have contact to
> ground stations on this or the other side of the great lake,
> depending on their 3D position, even thru the plane travels
> on a well defined track (probably a 3D circle, too) in just one
> direction only.
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> Ceterum censeo: Nevertheless this moving-clients application shows
> some demand for a true-location-independend IP-addresses
> announcement feature (provider independend "roaming") in IPv6,
> as in v4 (even thru this isn't the "standard" way, but Connexion is
> anything but standard). Shim etc. is not sufficient ...
>

That seems like a reasonable conclusion.

> Kind Regards
> Oliver

Regards
Marshall

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