[MLB-WIRELESS] Melbwirelses DNS and Domain Names

[Clae]

*ahem*

</ducks into bomb shelter>

>Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 17:32:41 -0400
>From: S Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [wireless-longhaul]	Re: [CI] 802.11b Wifi Extends beyond the
>	visionaries
>To: communityinformatics at vancouvercommunity.net
>Cc: wireless-longhaul at openict.net
>
>(cc'ing the wireless-longhaul mailing list)
>On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 06:44  AM, Don Cameron wrote:

<snip>

>  > Perhaps we do at last have the means to say goodbye to Telco dominated
>  > ADSL
>  > and Media dominated Cable. The next trial for us will be VoIP over the
>  > WiFi.
>
>I think that it is possible. There are routing issues that must be
>deciphered as well. The traditional model for routing on the internet
>is a bit of a kludge these days with CIDR blocks, RIRs, border gateway
>protocol, MPLS etc. that are designed to cope with the shortage of
>addresses in IPv4 and the exploding size of the internet.
>
>There's work being done by different people on developing routing
>systems under IPv6, the new internet protocol. The potential is to
>build in the requirements of community wireless networks into the new
>routing protocols. Some of the requirements include:
>- multihoming: the ability for a host to "home" or obtain service from
>multiple ISPs at the same time. This allows us to aggregate the
>bandwidth of all the different ADSL lines and cable lines into the CWN
>- ad-hoc : the ability to have the network configure itself
>automatically when new nodes are added
>- mesh: the ability to route the data through the network and route
>around temporary failures, without needing a central star topology or a
>big central tower.
>
>BTW, Voice over internet over WiFi is already being done, but there's a
>problem whenever you have NAT boxes involved, it makes it harder to
>work. The work on IPv6, a lot of it, is about getting rid of the NAT
>translation and giving everyone real internet addresses.
>
>You might want to check out the IETF multi6 working group, and also
>there has been some discussion on the BAWUG wireless mailing list about
>hacking together a temporary solution.
>
>simon
>
>  >
>  > Rgds, Don
>
>--
>www.simonwoodside.com -- 99% Devil, 1% Angel
>
>
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