RE: references on non-central authority network protocols

["Tony Hain" <alh-ietf () tndh net>]

Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Interesting idea though.  Perhaps someone will write an i-d 
> on autonomous
> numbering for IPv6.

RFC 3041 & http://www.tml.hut.fi/~pnr/publications/cam2001.pdf


Jasper Wallace wrote:
> Location - either distribute all the addresses evenly over 
> the planet or try
> to map to population density.
>
> (the higher your density of sites, the more accurate your 
> coordinates need
> to be).
>
> you could aggregate addresses by doing something like:
>
> 2 hemispheres
>
> 36 'triangular' chunks spaced every 10 degrees latitude.
>
> then split up in longditudernal stripes.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hain-ipv6-pi-addr-02.txt

> but i think you'd be better allocation on the basis of 
> population density.
>
> How exactly you'd make the social and economic changes to get 
> to a system
> like this vs, the telcos/isps we have now is probably more 
> trouble than it's
> worth ;-P

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hain-ipv6-pi-addr-use-02.txt


Tony