On Mar 1, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> If one of those positions captures your opinion, feel free to respond
> in shorthand. Otherwise, please tell us where you think we ought be
> going, as a WG, with (a), (b) and/or (c).

For me it’s (1) and (2).

I think there are a few reasons why homenet feels stalled right now.

We are tracking a moving target, and we haven’t adjusted our goals.   This is 
the conclusion I came to as a result of working on the presentation I did in 
Bangkok on Homenet Marketing.   I don’t think this is bad.
I conjecture that one of the reasons that there is good attendance at homenet 
but relatively limited participation is in fact that we are developing 
technology that is interesting to the people who are showing up, but not quite 
addressing their needs.
I don’t actually know what the applicability is for the hidden primary stuff.   
I’ve gotten feedback that there are people who want this, but I have no idea 
what to do with it, given that we don’t want to expose internal DNS to external 
nodes.
No hardware that does homenet.   We have homenet stuff in OpenWRT, but making 
it work in a home isn’t a turnkey operation, and that is, after all, the goal 
of Homenet: a real network that sets itself up without the user having to grok 
how it works.
One of the applications of Homenet that we keep hearing about is the SOHO 
market.   We should target that explicitly and see what gaps exist in 
addressing it.

So I think spending some time re-targeting would be worthwhile, and it’s my 
intention to present a draft that talks about that in Prague.

I also would really like to see if anybody is willing to actually hack on 
Homenet in the hackathon.   There are a couple of projects I’d like to see us 
work on:
Turnkey homenet build of OpenWRT
If the Turris folks are down, it would be nice if they could join us and make 
it work in Turris OS as well.
Homenet-wide service discovery using the DNSSD Discovery proxy we’ve been 
working on, which is fully functional at this point.
Support for DNSSD SRP (this would involve finishing the SRP gateway I’ve been 
working on, and getting it to update Unbound or BIND).
Joining constrained-network edge routers to homenet routing and service 
discovery infrastructure
MUD support for devices that are not on a separate link, but are isolated from 
nodes that don’t have permission to talk to them.   This should be doable in 
OpenWRT.
Automatic IKEv2 tunnels on OpenWRT that use the new split DNS stuff being 
published in IPSECME to allow us to serve home.arpa to VPN clients.

This is an ambitious set of goals, and I don’t expect we’ll work on all of 
them, but these are things that need work, so if there is energy to work on any 
of them, it would be nice to see that happen at hackathon.


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