[zeromq-dev] Some questions about EdgeNet.

[Pieter Hintjens]

Hi Sean,

There's no specific forum yet. Mostly I've been spreading the idea
that we have a real problem, and that we can solve it using what we've
learned from ZeroMQ. It seems to me that people need to dream first,
as you say, before we move to work together.

Why not start a forum, a mailing list, a wiki, or something? Perhaps
even a Google group, or IRC channel? You would be taking a concrete
step.

I've used Wikidot in the past with good results. We might also use
GitHub issues as a forum. Perhaps a github.com/edgenet/discuss
project?

What do you think?

-Pieter



On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Sean Robertson <sprobertson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a place for discussion specific to Edgenet? I too just
> finished reading Culture and Empire and the Edgenet proposal, and have
> been dreaming of asynchronous mesh networks ever since.
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:51 AM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   2) Some smartphones act as WiFi hotspots, and other smartphones connect to
>>> them.
>>
>> Yes, this is the idea. We've tested this previously, it works more or
>> less well enough. Right now it will still require manual coordination.
>>
>>> If EdgeNet doesn't depend on IP addresses, destination could be specified by
>>> public key.
>>
>> If you need destinations, yes. The initial use case is UUCP-style
>> broadcast. Anonymous sharing.
>>
>>> My guess would be that people will use broadband internet for public
>>> communications
>>> and that they will use EdgeNet or other darknets for private/sensitive
>>> communications.
>>
>> That's right.
>>
>> -Pieter
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