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From what I heard in the IRC group when I was hanging out, the group is mostly made up of people who think it's a nice idea but have absolutely no idea what the
by Locke1689 15y ago
From what I heard in the IRC group when I was hanging out, the group is mostly made up of people who think it's a nice idea but have absolutely no idea what they're doing.
My prediction is this movement fails flat on its face, as the people with the knowhow to develop the new protocols for this network are uninterested in joining a mass of lemmings who are more interested about what the project is going to be called than if it will work.
Here's a fun issue: security and stability in BGP. As we've seen many, many times over BGP is a completely insecure protocol with persistant problems with blackhole and cyclical routes. Many people inside IRC have proposed BGP as the routing mechanism for the mesh network, but have no proposals on how to deal with a completely decentralized network of high latency connections.
- noobface 15y agoI've taken it upon myself to shit on anything that hasn't been already implemented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLSR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLSR That's my current proposal for routing protocol. How it works at scale, I have no fucking idea, but I'll manually write the redistribution if I have to at the aggregation nodes.
- Locke1689 15y agoI would say don't even try, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N. is a better bet. OSLR will never work at the kind of scale that this project is aiming at. It's meant for networks on the order of hundreds of nodes. Also, you still need an addressing system. I was mentioning one of a hundred different problems that I've yet to see one person in the organization qualified to solve. If Van Jacobsen announced tomorrow he was building a worldwide mesh network I'd drop everything else and start contributing, but until then I see a lot of people flailing around and going nowhere.