CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002

[Peter Fairbrother]

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.


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Peter Fairbrother