From joe_hoane at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 20 18:15:19 2018
From: joe_hoane at yahoo.com (Joseph Hoane)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:15:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Mesh network problem
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I root for the Lightening Network?s success, but it seems to have an inherent weakness. Since?routing tables are not part of the architecture?how can the sender chose the next recipient so as to effect?an efficient path to the ultimate receiver? With no routing table available the next receiver's connection to the remote ultimate receiver or to the ultimate receiver?s proximate connections is unknown. Even a powerful bridge node will not know an efficient subsequent path and could send the message on in exactly the most inefficient direction. How does choosing an efficient next intermediate receiver not remain a guess, a shot in the dark??
I don?t think any solution to the mesh network routing problem has been found.?What am I missing here?? Thanks.

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