[Babel-users] babel and zeroconf

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Brad Neuberg <bradneuberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Luke and Juliusz! Good to hear from you. Ah, P2P DNS... thats near and
> dear to my heart...

 :)

> What's the context of the giant email thread below? I can glean bits and
> pieces but am not sure of what the overall discussion is about.

 ok - the overall goal is a decentralised self-configuring internet: everything
 works, but there's not one single-point-of-failure... but it all
"looks like" it
 does at the moment - you still get DNS (but it's p2p), you still get an
 internet connection (but you don't really know and don't really care where
 from, and it happens right this second to be a wireless mesh which drops
 you in some nebulous adhoc way onto several borrowed and shared wireless
 access points).

 key to the success of this goal is that there has to be a number of basic
 infrastructure components working and in place: one of them is provided
 by babel, the other is a p2p naming service which can do both unique
 _and_ group registrations.

 so, most of the discussion with juliusz was regarding the features that babel
 presently provides; me finding out its capabilities and whether it can be used
 to bridge many different wireless and wired local networks (it can) to form
 a cohesive virtual WAN (it can); and if babel can do e.g. QoS on top of that,
 due to e.g. severe bandwidth limitations such as 4800 baud 20-mile-range
 packet radio (it can't right now but can easily be adapted).

 the extistence of p2p dns, and the p2p-NS idea (with unique and group
 registrations a la RFC 1001/1002 - see rfc1001 sections 5.2, 15.1.1 and
 many others) was mentioned for completeness, in the discussions with
 juliusz, to give _him_ some context :)

 hope this helps - and i'd be delighted to help spec out something like
 a p2p-NS if you have the inclination / resources to implement it, of course,
 not taking up babel-users' time with it :)

 l.