Great thread David. Helping in this kind of situation is what drew me to P2P, and I wish we would have this kind of discussion more often here. On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Julian Cain <julian@junglecat.org> wrote:

The answer is alternative communications. Ham, CB, etc. With those the possibilities are endless. They are very reliable. They are very scalable. They can carry "any" message payload.

With the consolidation of ISPs building alternative networks is going to be the major hurdle we'll have to cross to enable a P2P internet, even on a local scale. Otherwise the people will be beholden to the kill switch, and (P2P) traffic that is deemed undesirable will be easily filtered. These steerable plasma antennas that are being looked at for future versions of wifi could be one technology that opens the door for community driven mesh networks: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827904.600-wireless-at-the-speed-of-... Maybe one important step for rapid adoption in crisis situations is P2P application download and install. If it was a one click operation to grab a mesh-enabled twitter app from your friend it would spread quickly. -Jeff _______________________________________________ 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