> At any rate, I need to
> mention that I've spent much of the last six months designing
> a distance-vector protocol for mesh networks[1], so I'm probably as much
> biased in favour of DV as you are in favour of LS.
Sorry, it looks like I missed the footnote.
[1] http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/
Juliusz