Activists creating decentralized mesh network that can't be blocked, filtered or silenced

[Mel Wilson]

On 02/27/2012 10:01 AM, Anthony Verevkin wrote:
> I just had a second thought about the mesh network. Setting aside the
> technical issues (which are obviously the most interesting to us), I
> would say the mesh network would only make sense if the significant
> amount of traffic would originate in the network and terminate in another
> part of the same network. With none of the points being fixed (like a
> datacenter) or else the link going to that datacenter would become a
> de-facto backbone.
>
> Would you guys have any suggestions on what kinds of applications such
> network could run? The ones where traffic would both originate and
> terminate in the Mesh. Say, there are 30-200 nodes in such network.

I had thought Son of Fidonet.  There is a real problem in keeping 
interest alive long enough to form a critical mass that's big enough to 
keep interest alive.  The communities that we've formed in our current 
Global Village (GTALug, for example) are not line-of-sight communities.

     Mel.

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