[p2p-research] New Wi-Fi Direct Gets Peer-to-Peer Connections - PC World

[Samuel Rose]

If it were possible to tie open mesh network protocol to the major
needs of people already working in the energy, food, environment,
education and social justice areas, this could potentially lead to the
emergence of a design commons around this technology. The key, that I
can see, is introducing the technology in a way that is driven by
existing needs, and an understanding on stakeholder's part of
potential opportunities.

People will need to know what resources (time, money, etc) are needed
to make the new resource possible, and will need commitments from
capable maintainers (assuming the system would not be immediately
self-reliant in it's early iterations). Plus, a limited targeted scope
(people in a specific region who can work together to maximize use of
the resource, either on problems they are already trying to solve, or
creating new opportunities enabled by the new mesh net resource).



On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Carson
<free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/14/09, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:
>> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173669/new_wifi_direct_gets_peertopeer_connections.html
>>  """
>>  A new specification, called Wi-Fi Direct, provides peer-to-peer connections
>> between Wi-Fi devices, no hotspot required. That could be bad news for
>> Bluetooth, but good news for customers. Developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance, the
>> new specification is expected to begin appearing in products as soon as next
>> year. It will allow device-to-device connections over the same range and as
>> the same speed as Wi-Fi, but without the need for a hotspot or access point,
>> the alliance said.
>
> Seems relevant to discussions of whether the Internet's servers are
> reslient enough to survive prolonged, widespread rolling brownouts
> from Peak Oil and a tsunami of bankruptcies.  Local open manufacturing
> networks and peer networks in the cognitive realm could still function
> based on local point-to-point meshworks, or computer-to-computer phone
> links, even without the Internet.
>
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