[MLB-WIRELESS] [proposal] IP allocation (was: DNS, DHCP, static ip... )

[Daniel Pittman]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, David Arnold wrote:
> -->"Brad" == Longmuir, Brad <bradl at petermac.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> 
>   Brad> There is a very similar example here:
>   Brad> http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/IpAllocationProposal
> 
> ok, so, their approach seems to be purely geographic.  they've also
> retained half their address space for future expansion.
> 
> thinking about the structure of the network, i think a purely
> geographic allocation model is probably more suitable for a community
> wireless network than it is for a commercial wired network: our
> aggregations are very likely to be based on geography, and there's far
> less opportunity for "wormholes" between geographic areas (assuming
> we're totally radio and have no economic disincentives to sane
> connectivity ;-).

That's possibly not the best assumption; there are probably people who
will tunnel the network through other things, mostly where it costs them
little or nothing more. :)

> the following is roughly based on the SeattleWireless scheme, but
> altered somewhat to cope with more geographical area, and an absence
> of top-down structuring, since i think that is silly at this time.

If y'all have some sort of structure this may not work so well...

..but it's a good proposal. I see no major problems with it.

        Daniel

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