<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
Hear hear!<br>
<br>
The powers that be will do anything in their power to maintain
their hegemony. This includes shutting down both terrestrial and
satellite communications systems. We must design systems which
uses existing infrastructure when they must, but take every
opportunity to route packets locally. I call this 'opportunistic
peer-to-peer'.<br>
<br>
I wonder if anybody on this list would be interested in
collaborating on a software project that makes such opportunistic
sharing dead simple? I am applying for a block of IPv6 space to
assist with this endeavour, under the auspices of the Free Network
Foundation. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org">www.freenetworkfoundation.org</a>) Broadly, the idea is
that each freedombox would have a unique address, and that those
freedomboxes with outboard network connections would host a
distributed hash table for routing. Let me know if you have any
interest in assisting with this endeavour, or know of any similar
technologies. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
take care,<br>
imw<br>
On 06/12/2011 04:51 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:BANLkTikUpQrzXRO5o9PED5odkUKhEu=a+Q@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 June 2011 01:11, Bob Mottram <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bob@sluggish.homelinux.net">bob@sluggish.homelinux.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid
rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left:
1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:54:46 -0500, Tom
Marble wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px
solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;
padding-left: 1ex;">
The New York Times has an article today on efforts by<br>
the US Government to support /alternate/ Internet<br>
communication strategies [0]. (I hope this page is<br>
accessible to everyone)<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
</div>
My estimation is that governments will assist such projects
only in so far as it's politically expedient for them to do
so. If you have identical systems being used to help people
to organise domestically based protests, etc, I think it
would be a very different story.</blockquote>
<div><br>
Exactly right!<br>
The expansion of 'democracy' into other national
environments facilitates international trade and associated
fiscal invasion.<br>
Democracy at home is a totally different scenario.<br>
Just ask Wisconsin and others.<br>
Are there still children in Gitmo?<br>
How many people marched in London recently?<br>
The driving forces behind the dispossession of the internet
are not Saleh, Assad and Ghaddafi.<br>
The need for a freedom box isn't going to be so much in far
away environments.<br>
When you look to the horizon, you miss seeing the snake at
your feet.<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Weaver.<br>
</div>
</div>
-- <br>
<pre><font size="4">Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by the rulers as useful.
— Lucius Annæus Seneca.
Terrorism, the new religion.</font></pre>
<br>
<pre wrap="">
<fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
_______________________________________________
Freedombox-discuss mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org">Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss</a></pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>