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Why the need to restrict the second one to business only? Not sure I see a need for that. The first one kind of exists in various commercial forms but they are

Why the need to restrict the second one to business only? Not sure I see a need for that. The first one kind of exists in various commercial forms but they are really expensive. Would your version be a kind of public utility?

salawat 3y ago
Pretty much. When I was younger, modeled it quite literally off of "neighborhood grids". The idea being communities + their networks mirror one another. Grids would end up becoming infrastructure items maintained on however granular a municipality decides it wants to. Instead of a wild hodgepodge of differently financed networks (some bad because not wealthy, some good because wealthy), we'd focus on codifying and rolling out "this is the minimum quality of service to be expected period". The reason I architected things that way was because I strongly believe that the best way to bootstrap network savvy for the widest possible audience is to bootstrap off of ways of life everyone no exceptions can relate to. Road systems are the prototypical network we all end up learning from. By mirroring civil infrastructure, you can also cultivate an appreciation and awareness w.r.t network traffic, and propagation in and out of a space. You essentially end up, with local groups of network operators able to coop to keep their surrounds operational. If this is sounding a lot like municipal networking, that's cause it is. Networks should be the realm of communities, and not seperable by mere financial accident. The bloody business only net would reside in what I call "the remote net" which is basically the net we have now, completely divorced from any type of local geographical constraints. The reason for it not to the necessarily "default net" is to specifically allow for things like a community engageable desync from the web at large if necessary, because back then, I was far more interested in empowering groups of people living together to coordinate amongst themselves uninterrupted rather than faciliatating top down control by "remote zones" of local nets, like you see starting to materialize today in the form of the practice of deplatforming. A new arrival (child's) onboarding process to the world would basically simplify down to one simple practice: learn to navigate and travel the real physical world, adding on increasing scopes and breadths of access as they can handle it. The shift toward algorithmic thinking, and getting an intuition for navigating these networks would just materialize in the same way that one learns ones neighborhood, local library, local municipality, next town over, etc. The final net gain, har har, is that one could over time basically decentralize every form of networked interaction. Yeah, it's pretty naive as *f given today's world. But the idea of Nets of data ever widening in scope, preserving data associated with the local inhabitants over time at least provides a framework of organization for any locality, or handful inhabitants to organize themselves with, and most importantly, express their own digital sovereignty with (which includes individuals setting up straight to remote grid connections, bypassing the local grid systems entirely). It was really more of a passion of getting the onramp to global networking a bit more navigable to the less tech inclined, and creating abstraction layers whereby municipalities can more effectively protect community subnetworks in some fashion.

salawat 3y ago

Pretty much. When I was younger, modeled it quite literally off of "neighborhood grids". The idea being communities + their networks mirror one another. Grids would end up becoming infrastructure items maintained on however granular a municipality decides it wants to. Instead of a wild hodgepodge of differently financed networks (some bad because not wealthy, some good because wealthy), we'd focus on codifying and rolling out "this is the minimum quality of service to be expected period". The reason I architected things that way was because I strongly believe that the best way to bootstrap network savvy for the widest possible audience is to bootstrap off of ways of life everyone no exceptions can relate to. Road systems are the prototypical network we all end up learning from. By mirroring civil infrastructure, you can also cultivate an appreciation and awareness w.r.t network traffic, and propagation in and out of a space. You essentially end up, with local groups of network operators able to coop to keep their surrounds operational. If this is sounding a lot like municipal networking, that's cause it is. Networks should be the realm of communities, and not seperable by mere financial accident. The bloody business only net would reside in what I call "the remote net" which is basically the net we have now, completely divorced from any type of local geographical constraints. The reason for it not to the necessarily "default net" is to specifically allow for things like a community engageable desync from the web at large if necessary, because back then, I was far more interested in empowering groups of people living together to coordinate amongst themselves uninterrupted rather than faciliatating top down control by "remote zones" of local nets, like you see starting to materialize today in the form of the practice of deplatforming. A new arrival (child's) onboarding process to the world would basically simplify down to one simple practice: learn to navigate and travel the real physical world, adding on increasing scopes and breadths of access as they can handle it. The shift toward algorithmic thinking, and getting an intuition for navigating these networks would just materialize in the same way that one learns ones neighborhood, local library, local municipality, next town over, etc. The final net gain, har har, is that one could over time basically decentralize every form of networked interaction. Yeah, it's pretty naive as *f given today's world. But the idea of Nets of data ever widening in scope, preserving data associated with the local inhabitants over time at least provides a framework of organization for any locality, or handful inhabitants to organize themselves with, and most importantly, express their own digital sovereignty with (which includes individuals setting up straight to remote grid connections, bypassing the local grid systems entirely). It was really more of a passion of getting the onramp to global networking a bit more navigable to the less tech inclined, and creating abstraction layers whereby municipalities can more effectively protect community subnetworks in some fashion.