Re: [gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Mitar review, question #9: Services provided

[Claudio Pisa <[e-mail]>]

Hello.

On 04/13/2016 10:55 AM, Jose Saldana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Section 7.3., services provided
>>
>> What is this section? A non-comprehensive list of services on the Internet
> and
>> networks in general? This looks pretty useless section which would not
> inform
>> anyone reading this draft of anything about alternative networks.
>>
>> If something, then it would be interesting to talk about specialized
> services
>> developed just for community/alternative networks:
>>
>> - Inter-network peering/VPNs: https://wiki.freifunk.net/IC-VPN
>> - Local wikis like: https://localwiki.org
>> - Community oriented portals: http://tidepools.co/
>> - Network monitoring/deployment/maintenance platforms
>> - VoIP sharing between networks, allowing cheap calls between countries
>> - Sensor networks and citizen science build by adding sensors to devices
>> - Community radio/TV stations

I would add internal search engines to the list of services specifically
designed for CNs.

References:

 - wahoo and woogle in AWMN (article in German):
https://www.woz.ch/1349/athens-internet-der-zukunft/wireless-woogle-und-wahoo

 - Ninuxoo in ninux.org: https://github.com/ninuxorg/ninuxoo



And perhaps also community-network whois services could be added as
CN-specific services or to the "Other facilities" subsection.

Reference:
https://github.com/ninuxorg/chininux


cheers,
Claudio

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