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From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Dick Roy <dickroy@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: 'David Lang' <david@lang.hm>,
	'Daniel AJ Sokolov' <daniel@falco.ca>,
	 starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink Roaming
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:55:01 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s2n3o351-1356-5o3-1022-9o43o9sr76r2@ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6520435B9E534AE6B242E102B15FECF3@SRA6>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-22  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-14 19:53 Jonathan Bennett
2022-02-14 20:29 ` David Lang
2022-02-14 21:43   ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-14 21:53     ` Jonathan Bennett
2022-02-14 21:59       ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-21  7:22   ` Larry Press
2022-02-21  7:29     ` David Lang
2022-02-21 20:31       ` Dick Roy
2022-02-21 20:43         ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-21 20:52           ` David Lang
2022-02-21 21:17             ` Dick Roy
2022-02-21 21:32               ` David Lang
2022-02-21 21:58                 ` Nathan Owens
2022-02-21 22:26                   ` Dick Roy
2022-02-21 23:08                   ` Steve Golson
2022-02-21 23:15                     ` Nathan Owens
2022-02-22  1:19                       ` Dick Roy
2022-02-21 22:02             ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2022-02-22  2:17               ` David Lang
2022-02-22  5:34                 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-22  7:20                   ` Dick Roy
2022-02-22  7:42                     ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-22  7:51                       ` Dick Roy
2022-02-22  9:03                       ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-02-22  9:40                         ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-22  9:46                           ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-02-22 10:01                             ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-22 10:37                               ` Vint Cerf
2022-02-22 11:14                                 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-22  7:58                     ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-22  8:51                   ` David Lang
2022-02-22  7:47                 ` Dick Roy
2022-02-22  8:55                   ` David Lang [this message]
2022-02-22 23:14                     ` Dick Roy

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