Hi, are you aware of the netsukuku project?
http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/?pag=home
> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:16:22 -0700
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> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Autonet - an autonomous internet
>
> Autonet is a project to create a wireless, global internet that can
> provide more reliability than corporate phone companies by being
> community based and freely licensed.
>
> The cutting off access to The Pirate Bay by BT in the UK [1] is just
> another sign of the beginning of the end. The fact that the Great
> Firewall of China exists signals that the internet is already obsolete
> and that the Great Firewall of the US is just around the corner. While
> moves against net neutrality began years ago and have been fought, nasty
> laws such as HR4437 and the Total Information Awareness program have a
> way of coming into existence later in the future, slightly modified,
> under different names. The internet as we know it, as a place for free
> exchange of information, as the center of what has been called a second
> 17th century with new ideas, creativity and innovation emerging daily,
> is rapidly coming to an end. We must use these last gasps of freedom to
> route around the disaster and create a truly free network.
>
> How? Advances in wireless technology such as ubiquitous wireless
> routers, community mesh networks which are easily expandable and
> self-healing as well as long range wireless efforts such as HPWREN
> indicate a possible future for a community based internet free of the
> centralized control of telephone corporations and governments. While
> this is definitely a fork, more forks are to come and we can only hope
> that a few networks will emerge which can be broad enough to span most
> of the globe.
>
> Major questions remain to be solved, such as speed issues, routing
> issues, DNS control, splits and neutrality. The Autonet, or Autonomous
> Internet project seems to begin to address this rapidly changing
> situation, where today Germany [2] has installed internet filtering as
> well and more countries are to come. While today those cut off are
> defying copyright laws, tomorrow any other political issue may be the
> cause for being denied access to global networks. While today the FBI is
> content to steal servers from information providers like Indymedia,
> perhaps tomorrow they will not be happy until indymedia is completely
> cut off of the network, or other open sources of information such as
> blogs, twitter accounts and social networks of dissident groups.
>
> The popular revolt in Iran and subsequent disruption of network access
> by the Iranian government is only a glimpse of what is to come in the US
> and around the world, where the first line of attack against political
> resistance is to cut off network access. By establishing a community
> based, wireless, global network we can allow groups of individuals, not
> corporations, to maintain freedom of communication; We can create out
> right to communicate instead of asking for it, and continue to route
> around obsolete intellectual property laws which restrict our dreams and
> our creativity. Join this effort by going to http://alt-bit.org and
> contributing to this research, lets start outlining the problems,
> finding the technical solutions and work out the issues, collectively,
> as a Free Software / Open Hardware project, using open licensing.
>
> Another urgent reason for Autonet is one that has motivated Free
> Software hackers for so long: Technological progress without a reliance
> on corporate support. Given the current financial and economic crises,
> how long can we expect dinosaurs like phone companies to survive? If one
> of these crises turns into disaster, the consequence is likely to be the
> disrution of collapse of the global networks on which we rely. I am not
> ready to give up what has been gained from these networks, including a
> worldwide communication between political actors empowered through fast
> information flows. We must start this long, difficult project today so
> that we may be ready for unexpected dangers which threaten our
> capability to communicate as a multitude, globally.
>
> To add to the project, go to http://trac.alt-bit.org/wiki/projects/autonet
>
> To sign up to participate, go to http://trac.alt-bit.org/register
>
> -djlotu5 <http://trac.alt-bit.org/wiki/user/djlotu5>
> -chead <http://trac.alt-bit.org/wiki/user/chead>
>
> [1] http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/251609/bt-blocks-off-pirate-bay.html
> [2] http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0906/msg00023.html
>
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