The Internet 2: The New Batch

[Triple Zero]

So I wandered across this subreddit recently: reddit.com/r/darknet.

They seem to be opting to turn their own computers into nodes for a new internet. It's not as futuristically cool as doing it with jewellery, but probably more immediately practical? They're proposing to use something called cjdns to do this, but I don't know anything about its security or practicality.

No they're just talking about it a lot, hoping someone will make it. Unfortunately, the part where it helps if a large crowd of people all do their little bit to make it better (the crowd-sourcing stuff Reddit is good at), doesn't happen before a bunch of really smart people solve the routing problems.

Although, I haven't seen them simply try and fail yet either. Then again, that might be for the best because it won't do the public opinion of such a project much good when they finally get all their friends to install some app or whatever to get a sizeable "municipal area network" going, and then it turns out network congestion kills all the performance.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Trip, what do you think of BATMAN and the other protocols attacking this problem?

[Bu🤠ns]

Anybody ever tried something like WASTE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE

[Rumckle]

When I lived in the university dorms we used to have WASTE set up for sharing files on the network. I seem to remember it being pretty decent at giving decent connection speeds.

[Bu🤠ns]

Is it  a practical solution to where this thread is going?

[Rumckle]

Well, it worked well on a small scale (~250 computers), but I don't know if it will scale up. Perhaps someone with more knowledge on network systems can help?

[Triple Zero]

Trip, what do you think of BATMAN and the other protocols attacking this problem?

Never heard of it, link?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

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