Well, it's a fairly minor dream. What I imagine is this: I have DSL. My neighbour has DSL. We also both have WiFi APs that can reach each other, and connect at order-of-magnitude faster than the DSL links. What I dream is this: That we start routing internet across the link. When I start pulling packets off the internet, they can come to me not only through my own DSL but from hers as well. I think this boils down to an ultimate simplicity what all FN / CWNers want to achieve.

What needs to happen before I can realize my dream. I need to get an IPv6 address ... at least one ... for free. I need to be able to set up multi-homing in my home router. I need to be able to advertise my routing path to the internet. The internet needs to be able to handle at a massive scale (since every neighbour connects...). We need a /lot/ more IP addresses than we have now. I need to use a /real/ IP address because I can't route internet traffic through a NAT/site-local address. I need to have an ad-hoc routing algorithm that can set up this bridge and route across it really easily (because I'm not a trained network admin). Forget about BGP, AS, etc., we need a way to handle the massive overload of routes at local scale, at a regional scale, at a global scale -- something that will scale gracefully as the internet topology shifts from a tree to a massively connected mesh.

Please comment ... tell me what you think.

Simon

PS I'm cross-posting this to a bunch of lists because I don't know one it belongs on. If you think you know which is best, please tell me!

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