On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:26 PM, e.waelde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ew.ng7125@nassur.net">ew.ng7125@nassur.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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In the talk of Eben Moglen at Debconf 2010, he mentiones<br>
that we need some aggregators, which will transparently handle<br>
messages from several sources / or to several destinations.<br>
... <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I'm not aware that such pieces of software exist. But I'm not using<br>
these networks, so I'm by no means an expert. If they exist, they<br>
should be added to the Wiki page ...<br></blockquote><div><br>This is one of Diaspora's goals. Whether they will succeed or not is still unknown. But you are right, this software is unfinished.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The same reasoning can be applied to other services, obviously. Email<br>
being a more prominent one. If I have a friend with his/her own freedom<br>
box, of course I do not want to send email through my ISPs mail servers<br>
but directly to the email relay on his/her FreedomBox.<br></blockquote><div><br>This is much less of an issue. E-mail is already decentralized. If every Freedom Box has its own DNS name, direct routing of e-mail to Freedom Boxes becomes at least theoretically possible. There are still many difficult issues related to reachability and spam protection, but I think at least some of those could be solved through clever use of existing tools.<br>
<br>(I've thought about this a bit, and could relatively easily add support to PageKite to allow direct routing of incoming e-mail to a firewalled FreedomBox, but it would be incompatible with SSL at the SMTP layer, so only clear-text SMTP would work. The other alternatives are to set up SMTP relays "in the cloud", or somehow give every FreedomBox a publicly routeable IP address. For outgoing mail, we almost certainly need helper relays in the cloud due to ISP port blocking.)<br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Bjarni R. Einarsson<br>The Beanstalks Project ehf.<br><br>Making personal web-pages fly: <a href="http://pagekite.net/" target="_blank">http://pagekite.net/</a><br>