Route Avoidance Through Routing Protocol (20-Jan-2010)

Route Avoidance Through Routing Protocol

This solution discusses, "Region Avoidance Through Route Detection." The advantage of this solution is that it provides for rerouting, The disadvantage of this solution is, as it relates to "Region Avoidance Through Route Detection", is that it is more difficult to implement.

The internet truly links the countries of the world, but just as one would not travel to some regions of the world because of safely concerns, one also may not want data to pass through these same regions. The data may be viewed or stolen. Even if the data is encrypted, the packet headers remain in the clear. Prying eyes can discern a great deal of information by just knowing the source and destination addresses and ports numbers or the volume of activity or time etc. [1]

This invention allows one to avoid certain regions by avoiding the routers operating within those regions.

There have been a number of projects that have map internet routed traffic flow and locations. [2]

The idea of this solution is a method which allows a user's data traffic to avoid regions of the globe or a routing protocol which also allows the user data traffic to be routed around certain undesired regions of the world.

The idea of this solution is that the user would select regions they do not want their traffic to travel through. This method would then map that region of the globe to the route IP address and subnets from that region i...