[e2e] a means to an end

[David P. Reed]

Why should "location" be relevant to networking?   Must all wires be 
buried permanently in the ground?  Does wireless and mobility not occur?

Michael Welzl wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:26 +0100, Ali Ghodsi wrote:
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>> Jon Crowcroft wrote:
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>>> but, BUT this is sidestepping the big problem
>>> which is to have a service which hosts the 
>>> id<->loc mapping, which actually 
>>> scales to the size of the expected workload...
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>> Can DHTs be part of the solution, and if not, what are the essential 
>> features which they are lacking? (trying to fish for research problems)
>>     
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> Location dependance, which even the "id" part should
> have (at least in the form of some concept of "nearness").
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> This was pointed out quite convincingly (IMO) by John Day
> in his "patterns in network architecture" book.
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> Cheers,
> Michael
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