Andy Schroder [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-06-20 📝 Original message: Who do you think controls ...

📅 Original date posted:2018-06-20
📝 Original message:
Who do you think controls the routing table for the internet? Is the internet not a mesh network?

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Andy Schroder

On June 20, 2018 2:15:19 PM EDT, Joseph Hoane via Lightning-dev <lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>I root for the Lightening Network’s success, but it seems to have an
>inherent weakness. Since routing tables are not part of the
>architecture how can the sender chose the next recipient so as to
>effect an efficient path to the ultimate receiver? With no routing
>table available the next receiver's connection to the remote ultimate
>receiver or to the ultimate receiver’s proximate connections is
>unknown. Even a powerful bridge node will not know an efficient
>subsequent path and could send the message on in exactly the most
>inefficient direction. How does choosing an efficient next intermediate
>receiver not remain a guess, a shot in the dark? 
>I don’t think any solution to the mesh network routing problem has been
>found. What am I missing here?  Thanks.
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