[mesh] Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Here comes the pain...

[Matthew.C.Boyd at uts.edu.au]

Someones probably already said this, hell maybe I've mentioned it...
but...
What are the restraints on us approaching people who set up wireless 
networks, be they ISPs or some other scumbags and proposing a standard ip 
allocation scheme (probably more easily workable with ipv6, but not 
impossible with the constraints we have on our ipv4 stuff), a standardised 
routing setup and a standard essid, the advantage being that a wireless ISP 
or company wanting to provide access to its network over a larger area 
wouldn't have to worry excessively about the infrastructure cost. The 
advantage to us being that we get a larger range of services on the 
wireless network and more active nodes.

If you wanted to use a wireless ISP then you'd just need to set up an ipsec 
tunnel to the nearest gateway out to the net. If you wanted to access the 
computer at work, ipsec tunnels once again, or whatever else becomes available.

Basically its the mesh idea, using the increased wireless traffic / node 
density to increase bandwidth rather that complaining about the noise. We 
could use the subscription thing with Melbwireless that was discussed a 
while ago to make it legal for people to use it for net access.

I can see a number of problems with this idea, number 1 being that you'd 
have to convince people that we had the capabilities to support the 
network, the next that it's in their interest, is it legal, people using 
the network would want to have some say in how it was run. Is there 
anything that stops us from letting companies join melbwireless, some sort 
of corporate membership, or could we start up something along the lines of 
a standards body to promote our scheme? Having said this, is it worthwhile 
to work through these (and all the other) problems.

Matt


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