[wsfii-discuss] SF Bay Area project Status / Stanford GROW-Net project

Mon Dec 3 09:05:28 UTC 2007

Hi David

wlan at mac.com wrote:
> Hi Ramon, Gregers,
> 
> When you say 'open network model' are you talking about no  
> authentication or accounting? Or, the ability to freely register for  
> access? One of the missions of the Coova.org project is to provide a  
> free (RADIUS) AAA roaming platform to help bring together  
> communities. More than that, it provides integration into other forms  
> of authentication and community building; be it OpenID, and more  
> recently, Facebook. The goal is to provide a free and open solution  
> able to work with the widest range of applications - from WPA  
> Enterprise to Captive Portal (of just about any kind) to a pure  
> RADIUS interconnect.
> 
> I'm interested in knowing what your specific requirements/needs are.
> 
> 

When I refered to 'open network model' it was in terms of both economy
(who is paying for the infrastructure) and management (who is
managing/controlling the infrastructure) - further more, I'm not sure if
it is possible to attach something like an 'independent mesh-cloud' to
the Google funded network in Mountain View (or use a system like
Coova.org) ...
But good question - I still think Guifi.net is a close with their
definition of 'neutral network' (and I'm personnaly not convinced that
the SF. net innitiative is "neutral" in this sense) ...?

-- 
Gregers Petersen
DIIRWB International-Coordinator
international-coordinator at diirwb.net
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