[p2p-research] DIY/P2P physical networks (Was: Re: FWD: Re: Google gets into the DNS business)

[Rafael Pezzi]

Marco and Ted, 

This article about the Social Cloud might add to this conversation.
Part 1:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p-and-the-social-cloud-the-emergence-of-peer-economic-systems-part-1/
Part 2:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p-and-the-social-cloud-the-emergence-of-peer-economic-systems-part-2/

Michael has also recently pointed to it in his blog at
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-and-the-social-cloud/2009/11/30

Rafael

Em Seg, 2009-12-07 às 18:32 -0500, Ted Smith escreveu:

> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:09 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > (answering also to Ted now) I am deeply skeptical (**) about DIY / P2P
> > physical networks as complete replacements of centrally managed and
> > deployed **physical** telecom networks. I already wrote extensively
> > about this, so I invite everybody to (re)-read this:
> > 
> > http://p2pfoundation.net/Thoughts_on_P2P_production_and_deployment_of_physical_objects 
> 
> I don't have the time to read through that right this minute, but I
> will. From the glance I took at it, I think I can spot a few things you
> might have missed.
> 
> I don't disagree with you wrt the infeasibility of totally replacing the
> current hierarchical internet with a p2p/horizontal one. However, it
> does seem very feasible to grow local networks that can supplant the
> current structure _locally_ -- for instance, the Athens network, or
> Freifunk. The article is also more than a year old now; maybe it's time
> for an update ;-)
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