Re: [gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Mitar review, question #3. Typical scenarios

Defining "rural" is surprisingly difficult - the US government is rumored
to have 50 definitions. From a networking perspective, it's very different
whether you connect isolated rural dwellings, separated by miles, or
villages, with clusters of a few hundred residences. (In the US, think
Vermont small town vs. individual farms in Kansas or Oklahoma or homes
along rural streets in West Virginia.)

One distinction is the average (or median) distance between network end
points.

Henning

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Eric A. BREWER <brewer@berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I agree that there are rural only networks.  The use some backhaul that
> might go to an urban area (if not satellite), but are really separate
> things.
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Jose Saldana <jsaldana@unizar.es> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > Section 4.5, typical scenarios:
>> >
>> > I do not see usefulness of this categorization, because almost any
>> network
>> I know of
>> > outgrow and changed through time inside all these categories. Community
>> networks
>> > maybe start somewhere (like urban or rural area), but then they grow and
>> spread
>> > over the whole country, then start connecting with other countries.
>>
>> In my understanding, there are some networks especially targeted for rural
>> areas. So I think the division does make sense. Perhaps in the future a
>> lot
>> of them will be interconnected, but nowadays some rural deployments exist,
>> so for me the classification makes sense.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jose
>>
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