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Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Fri, 10 July 2020 14:19 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Subject: Re: Automatically connecting stub networks...
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:19:35 -0400
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To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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On Jul 10, 2020, at 05:44, Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> But the requirement should the there to allow the network to scale up to bigger.

It’s true that there may be some use case for hierarchical, non-mesh self-forming networks, but that’s not the use case I’m trying to address here. We tried to address that use case in homenet and arguably failed.

My goal here is to describe something that can be done largely with existing technology and can be deployed in real, existing networks today.

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