[Starlink] Starlink Roaming

[David Lang]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, Dick Roy wrote:

> My thinking is that the laser links will make it possible to route the
> traffic
>> from wherever I am to the appropriate ground station that I'm registered
> with as opposed to the current bent-pipe approach where, if I move to far from 
> my registered location, I need to talk to a different ground station.
>
>
>
> [RR] It is important to remember there is no need to go through a particular
> ground station.  What is necessary is to authenticate the dishy to the
> network. Authentication servers will probably be distributed so that it can
> happen quickly and the resulting flows and paths can be configured
> independently.

long term you are correct, short term I expect that dishes are assigned a 
specific ground station. It's a choice that would get them up and running 
faster, and with a fixed bent-pipe arrangement, doesn't really hurt that much 
(again, short term)

David Lang