[governance] grassroot network (was Re: Rebuilding...)

[JFC Morfin]

At 14:40 22/03/2011, Norbert Bollow wrote:

>JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:
>
> > Also, an independant grassroots communication network technology,
> > independent from the ISP infrastructure (based on wifi, optical local
> > meshed network, telephone vacation, high compression techniques, FEC
> > for one shot forwarding, etc.) could be a citizen, lilitary, survival task.
>
>I'm strongly agreed on the importance of this.
>
>But how will this work be funded / financed?

RFC 3869 says it. It says that as long as Internet R&D is financed by 
merchants there is no hope. Their solution is to call on the Govs. 
Specially on the US one. The response was given in Tunis: Google.

The real thing of a grassroots technology is that is to be grassroots 
and therefore to cost nothing, as soon as able engineers grab the 
problem and accept that this is a citizen duty (that may also mean 
personal fame). The problem is that open software applications and 
networking call for very different types of developpers and societal 
motivations because the structure of the work and of kind of the 
achievement is very different. The glory too.

This is why I put together an emerging framework for such a 
technically supporting community. But some personnal problems kept me 
out for a few months.



>Greetings,
>Norbert
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