[Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communication between Freedomboxes

Ted Smith tedks at riseup.net
Thu Jul 7 20:29:49 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 16:14 +0200, Lukas Nagl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> although the topic is raised in various subjects, I think that there is 
> a need for a specific place to talk about how different freedomboxes 
> will be able to establish communication with each other.
> 
> This question doesn't concern itself with the contents of communication, 
> but rather with how a communication can be first established, and 
> re-established in the future (e.g. John wants to be able to communicate 
> with Sue, and once the initial handshake was successful [if any], be 
> able to communicate with her again in the future).
> 
> There are various ways to do this. Some centralized, some decentralized, 
> some require people meeting each other and some don't.
> 
> What possibilities do you see, and what do you propose?
> 
> -- Lukas

It's important to hold off on solutions when discussing a difficult
problem. Human psychology is constructed so that when faced with a
difficult problem, we are very quick to propose a solution (the harder
the problem, the less time we think about it). The consensus that the
psychology community has come to is that it is better to fully discuss a
problem before proposing solutions. 

Reading this original email, I am confused as to what a "connection" to
"establish communication" is, since as far as I am aware the FreedomBox
has no software written with it in mind as of yet. I can only assume
that everyone reading it has filled in the blank with what they think
those words mean, but if we all do that we fall victim to the
transparency fallacy, where we all assume everyone can see what we're
thinking. Before we can converge on a solution, we have to converge on a
problem.


So, what specific use case are we all thinking of here? Lukas, could you
start us off by describing a use case you were thinking of? 
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