Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Dave Howe wrote:
ah. Sorry, I don't think of dns as a name service (apart from once removed) - we are talking DHCP or similar routable-address assignment.
You can use GPS as naming service (name collisions are then equivalent to physical space collisions). You can actually label the nodes automagically, once you know that it's a nearest-neighbour mesh spanned over patches of Earth surface. You can use signal strenght and relativistic ping to make mutual time of flight triangulation. It is a good idea to use a few GPS anchor nodes, so that all domains are consistent.
What I don't understand is how a node knows the location of a person who moves about in the first place. Also, I don't like the idea that my location is known by the location of my equipment. But I know very little about geographical routing. -- Peter Fairbrother