Scott,
>If this is off topic for this list, somebody flame me!
If this is off topic then I'll get flamed as well...
>The Sputnik Community Gateway is very cool. However, I believe that the
>cooperative membership fee driven business model offers the most hope
>for creating a network aimed at ubiquity.
Well, I still feel if you do it for FREE, then it would be even more
ubiquous (is that even a word?) ;-)
>Also, I feel that the central arbiter of such a cooperative network,
>should not be a for-profit company.
Agreed.
>Most definitely it should not be one
>which sees it's "free" access point operators as a way to extend it's
>brand and promote it's other services.
Exactly.
That's why we started our Global organization. We also know that it's
going to be a constant battle (as we continue to struggle with foreign
countries, and the legislation/regulation on wireless networks). We've
already been to court in Australia, as well as the UK to fight the big
telco's and to keep the government from "shutting down free wireless
networks".
Understand that each country has it's own laws (regarding 2.4Ghz, and
the 1watt EIRP that we see here in the U.S. is very gracious compared to
the power limits of most foreign countries).
> > Good idea though - someone needs to make it happen.
We're trying...
Mark
www.nextechwireless.net
P.S. If you were/are an engineer, you'd understand what a nightmare
(network architecture wise) this is going to be. That's why we've spent
the past year and a half on development, and we're still far from
finished. We've developed our own special routing protocols (to allow
for the meshing of nodes, bandwidth aggregation, triangulation software,
load balancing of authentication servers, IPv6/IP Telephony, etc.)
Our end result is to create ONE free Global network, and to bring free
wireless service to rural and low-income areas (globally).
P.S.S. If this is "off-topic" please send me a kind E-mail (aka Flame),
and we'll take this discussion off list.
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 10:16, David L. Sifry wrote:
> Thanks for the plug. Some cool stuff coming.
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:57, Greg Herlein wrote:
> > > If this sounds good to anyone, please contact me. I'd love to talk
about
> > > this, and even more to get things started.
> >
> > I thought that Sputnik was a way to make that
> > happen. www.sputnik.com
> >
> > They are corporate, but I'd hesitate to call them huge!
> >
> > Good idea though - someone needs to make it happen.
> >
> > Greg
> >
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