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[routing-wg]BGP Update Report
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Gert Doering
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Mon Sep 11 19:15:14 CEST 2006
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:32:57PM +0200, Oliver Bartels wrote:
> Hi Gert,
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:06:00 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> >Ummm, well, this is a damn fast plane if it will reach another continent
> >1843 times per day (or even "per week")... - which should be the only
> >time the BGP announcement moves.
> >
> >Sounds more like "the BGP-follows-plane system has some stability problems".
>
> Nack.
>
> Probably they are using low or medium earth orbit satellites, which
> _are_ damn fast in orbit. Otherwise the round trip time would be
> unacceptably high.
The announcement is generated by the earth stations, and those are
*not* fast. All the available papers clearly describe that - the
BGP isn't coming from the plane itself, and the BGP announcement is
supposed to change only when crossing to another continent.
Gert Doering
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