Re: [gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Mitar review, question #3. Typical scenarios

"Jose Saldana" <jsaldana@unizar.es> Tue, 12 April 2016 14:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Mitar review, question #3. Typical scenarios
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Hi,
 
> Section 4.5, typical scenarios:
> 
> I do not see usefulness of this categorization, because almost any network
I know of
> outgrow and changed through time inside all these categories. Community
networks
> maybe start somewhere (like urban or rural area), but then they grow and
spread
> over the whole country, then start connecting with other countries.

In my understanding, there are some networks especially targeted for rural
areas. So I think the division does make sense. Perhaps in the future a lot
of them will be interconnected, but nowadays some rural deployments exist,
so for me the classification makes sense.

Thanks!

Jose