Re: [RRG] Long term clean-slate only for the RRG?

[HeinerHummel@aol.com]

In einer eMail vom 04.07.2008 00:37:29 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com:

On 2008-07-04 09:23, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> The analogy between street addresses and packet addresses for routing
> has MANY weaknesses.
> Street routing relies on the fact that connectivity is highly meshed.

I do not understand what these 2 sentences mean.

And just to be clear, BGP4 routing is not highly meshed. I happened
to look at the potaroo.net data yesterday.

86.3% of active autonomous systems are purely originators of
routes (stubs), 13.4% also provide transit, and 0.3% are pure
transit systems. 42% of autonomous systems originate only one prefix.

    Brian

Also, the internet is a very very small network compared with the network of the roads and streets.

But, see above, I do not understand. For an algorithm I doesn't matter whether the network is tightly meshed or lesser meshed.It would only matter, if there were no single mesh at all.

 

Heiner