On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:06 AM, David Barrett wrote:

It occurs to me that you could probably do most of this, today, using Bluetooth. Indeed, does anybody know anything about the various Bluetooth mesh networks / scatternets I see on Google?

There are some experiments or academic test like piconetwork. There was one call NAN : Near-me area network but I don't know any public implementation. Piconet was something foreseen for Bluetooth but I don't know if there is current any use of it. In the same spirit (relying on any local IP networks), I prototyped Forban to share files in an opportunist way on temporary networks or mobile networks. The protocol is really simple : relying on HTTP for everything except the announce part in broadcast (in IPv4) and in multicast (in IPv6). http://www.foo.be/forban/ https://github.com/adulau/Forban I looked at the early beginning at Bluetooth but the most common network, where everyone is connected to, is more wireless local area networks using IP even recent phone are using plain standard IP over 802.11. If you have any ideas, let me know. Kind regards, -- -- Alexandre Dulaunoy (adulau) -- http://www.foo.be/ -- http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Diary -- "Knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance -- that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE