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A Galaxy-Scale Addressing Scheme for Compute Availability
- TomMckenny 8y agoAnd get this: There is no universal agreement on what countries there are. There are always a few that some nations acknowledge and some don't. You could just copy whatever is done for TLD but I get the impression it does not unambiguously covers every point on earth in advance.
- bastawhiz 8y agoNorth Korea is not recognized as a state by a few countries, but if I told you that there was a server there in Pyongyang, I doubt the location would be ambiguous. The point of this system is to provide a rough location, not an exact one. If you cared about an exact location, you'd just include latitude and longitude. But that's not useful for compute availability purposes, since you likely care far more about the laws of the state that it's housed in and the connections it has to nearby metropolitan areas. A pile of numbers does nothing to help you remember where your VM is.
- hardwaresofton 8y agoYeah, it's even worse than I make it out to be -- one of the biggest problems of a scheme like this is avoiding politics.
- mattrp 8y agoBell core I’m sure wrote such a scheme in the 60’s...
- crb002 8y agoProviders need a method to query the data center a particular storage URI is at so you can fire up compute within that data center to crunch it. Lat/long is nice too so you can at least move the data to a nearby data center for compute, or if you need to do cross data center message passing.