Addressing, was Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues

[Adrian Close]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Joseph Sirucka wrote:

> Then were do you suggest we would get some free class c's addresses.

APNIC is really the best place, to do it right.  Other than that, as I
mentioned, there are various people who do or may have spare address they
might be prepared to have allocated for a worthy cause.  I do realise that
there is a bit of co-ordination and organisation required for this
approach.

On reflection I think we can add another approach to the arsenal:

- Mostly people already have some kind of globally routable address space,
be it one address through to many, be it statically or dynamically
allocated.

- What we are creating is, at least in part, what I'm tempted to call an
"alternet".  That is, we are creating a wireless alternative for packet
routing among a group of interested players.

- We can create a dynamic routing "mesh" (e.g. a BGP table) that contains
information on how to get to participant's [real] IP networks via the
wireless net.

Routing propagation delay (not RF) is one issue we'd have to deal with in
this scenario, especially for people who changed addreses frequently.  In
this case a hybrid approach might be worthwhile, where we give those guys
address space from a MLB-WIRELESS allocation.

By the way, I'm not for a moment suggesting that people should delay
setting up links or testing until an allocation of globally portable
addresses can be obtained by the group.


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