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Assigning a price to a given (large) region is the easy part. The hard part is cache invalidation! For a stationary Starlink dish, every satellite knows which
by samatman 6y ago
Assigning a price to a given (large) region is the easy part.
The hard part is cache invalidation! For a stationary Starlink dish, every satellite knows which cell a given dish is in, and they cooperate to route packets to that cell when they can.
For a mobile Starlink dish, they have to be able to invalidate that cache every time it moves, instead of having a cushion of a few hours for the occasional move.
It can be done, but I don't blame them for punting on that problem for awhile.