possibly noteworthy wrote:
Are you ready to pay $100 a month for residential access to the Internet?

No, but issuing IP addresses based on geographic location is LONG overdue.

That isn't going to fix things.

... All identifier/locator split proposals require a mapping service that can return a set of locators corresponding to a given identifier. In addition, these proposals must also address the problem of detecting locator failures and redirecting data flows to remaining locators for a multihomed site.

I'm confused. Issuing IP addresses based on geographic location is precisely what these people mean when they talk about the "identifier/locator split." I don't really see the use of IPs as identifiers as being terribly important. That is what the domain name system is for. There is a lot of legacy tied up in it, and we don't really have a good understanding of how to do (or enforce) geographic IPing, but thats what we need to do.

I'm not new to this question. Abaddon and I were about 50% of the way through writing a prototype for using Diffie Helman key exchanges to allow TCP connections to persist through IP address changes, but we stopped when we heard about HIP. I haven't looked at HIP in detail. It was mostly "fuck, someone else figured this out" and we gave up on it. Perhaps I should...

RE: Looming Issues in Internet Architecture