[MLB-WIRELESS] The future

[Fulton, Darren J]

I can't speak for anyone else in the company that's on this list but this
particular employee of an "unnamed telco" is here for private enjoyment only
:-)  If my address offends/scares anyone I can rejoin with a private one.

Darren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lkhoo at csc.com.au [mailto:lkhoo at csc.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2002 12:58 PM
> To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] The future
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> I think mark was implying that a person with an important routing node
> would suddently start charging for the relay of packets ot 
> other parts of
> the free network.
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> I think the whole "providing inet access to wireless ppl" 
> thing has been
> debated quite a bit already and as someone else mentioned 
> "unnamed telcos
> ARE watching these mailling lists".
> 
> Lucas
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> If someone charged for access to an uplink to the internet from their
> node they wouldn't suddenly control the whole network.
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> Nevermind the fact they'd need a carrier's license and probably would
> never do this, of course.
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> -D
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> Mark Saward wrote:
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> >Thinking ahead...
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> >If in the future this takes off and becomes very popular around
> >Melbourne, or perhaps even further than that...
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> >Would it be possible for one/a few people, either on this 
> list now or to
> >join up in the future to legally/through hardware gain control of
> >important points of the WAN and act like an ISP or something 
> new, taking
> >away the free nature of the WAN?
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> >Is there any way that the WAN can be protected, like the GNU GPL
> >license, to ensure that it is always free to those with the hardware?
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> >Mark Saward
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