<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 2, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Lukas Nagl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>There are various ways to do this. Some centralized, some decentralized, some require people meeting each other and some don't.<br><br>What possibilities do you see, and what do you propose?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>an idea.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Every freedombox has some unique identifier or even a profile whitch could be so " annonymous" as the user want,</div><div>it could be like a Vcard, avatar/profilepict , with public keys, tags, information about the user what he "likes" or is "interested" in.</div><div>Remember it should be social !! ....;)</div><div><br></div><div>This information could be retrieved via an url for e.g. ://marxbox.freedom</div><div><br></div><div>Keep in mind that a freedombox can be used from several different people.</div><div><br></div><div>So this start dialog is nesessary after reboot or user change.</div><div><br></div><div>Then you hit the "connect to freedom " button and you will be connected to a kind of "opendirectory " ? or some sort of thing</div><div>where you see all the connected freedomboxes in realtime and can browse/explore or search them</div><div><br></div><div>I believe its absolutly unpracticle to exchange "keys" in real life because most of us might possibly never meet because</div><div>we life on a different continent, in a different timezone , or speak another language. (But of course it should be optional )</div><div><br></div><div>So we can browse the "freedombox directory" for services and information and request a "connenction" with another freedombox, </div><div>these "peered" boxes we categorise in different "colored circles" or whatver cloud symbols to relations like , </div><div>( my computer enthusiasts , my cricket club, my whisteblowers , my chinese connection .e.t.c )</div><div><br></div><div>So we use a centalised "meeting point / rendevous server" ( identity provider? maybe to verify the software compactibility also ) </div><div>for first connect or to explore NEW freedomboxes when we want to grow our network. (maybe we could display connectivity data/ranking so everybody who wants to connect to a specific box could see how much "worth" a conenction is , depending if the box is connected to a fibrewire network for example or just connected via a 56k modem</div><div><br></div><div>AND </div><div><br></div><div>build an independent peer 2 peer network from our personal relations and connenction, whitch could be totally independent if we have enough "neighbours " and thruput......So our network getting faster and better and more reliable with any connection we make :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>greetings</div><div><br></div><div>Marc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">-- Les enfants teribbles - research / deployment<br>Marc Manthey- Vogelsangerstrasse 97<br>50823 Köln - Germany<br>Tel.:0049-221-29891489<br>Mobil:0049-1577-3329231<br>blog: <a href="http://let.de/">http://let.de</a><br>twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/macbroadcast/">http://twitter.com/macbroadcast/</a><br><br></div></span> </div><br></body></html>