If anybody actually wants to do this and needs assistance, I'm more than willing to help, I've done all this before :-) You just need to have the critical mass.
That's the point isn't it? We have critical mass. It's just that it's spread impossibly thin among all the enthusiasts, community wifi groups and various commercial interests worldwide.
My version of the dream is that a major AP supplier (Apple-Cisco-DLink?) takes the Locustworld design and productizes it into a commodity AP at the same price point as current AP-WiFi-Nat-Router combo boxes. The market finds this enormously compelling and before we know it the whole of downtown Manhattan (or whatever city you care to mention) is covered with a mesh-connected WiFi cloud that aggregates all the interconnections between the cloud and the Internet. And like the internet the cloud has these attributes:-
a. No one owns it
b. Everyone can use it
c. Anyone can improve it
I don't see how this can happen without some minimal agreement on IP allocation and routing through and off the cloud. That's probably the one big sticking point that will stop this happening. Of course, that model is also hugely threatening to a wide range of entrenched interests so expect some serious blocks to be put in the way as well.
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