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May 14, 2007
Slow down, you move too fast
I'm making my morning last on a train down from Edinburgh to London, which is armed with Wi-Fi.
Just a quick thought. How much engineering talent and network capacity is given over to enabling high-speed cell handoffs? Why do we put all that intelligence in the network and handsets, when it's such an exception case? Given humans can't run at more than about 20mph and need some vehicle to go faster, why don't we just put all the "high speed handoff" logic into the high-speed vehicles, offer local (zero relative speed) access within the vehicle, and keep the rest of the infrastructure cheap and simple?
UPDATE: Interestingly, on the return trip (I'm pulling into Peterborough station now) Skype thinks we're in Sweden:
The Internet lacks any introspection capability for applications to ask the ISP things like "where are we?", "what jurisdiction are we in?", and "can I bill for content and services through you?".
Yet the train knows exactly where we are. An opportunity lurks...
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