Re: [gaia] An Internet Draft about Community Networks. A first question

"Steven G. Huter" <sghuter@nsrc.org> Wed, 25 June 2014 17:26 UTC

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:26:41 -0700
From: "Steven G. Huter" <sghuter@nsrc.org>
To: Arjuna Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gaia] An Internet Draft about Community Networks. A first question
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i agree, arjuna. mutual benefits and joint responsibility are more likely 
to result in a sustainable network.

steve huter

On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, Arjuna Sathiaseelan wrote:

> Hello Paul - this is an excellent example. So its not only about the
> community having organisational control but it could also be
> commercial entity that "solely" depends on the community for
> sustainability and hence has commercial accountability. Excellent one.
>
>
>> ex: that rural german fiber network, BBNG
>> (http://www.thelocal.de/20140601/german-villagers-build-own-broadband-network).
>> it's run by paid staff working for an entity that is funded by investors
>> (who are not all local).  BUT its service footprint is such that the entity
>> will fail (with complete certainty) if the served community stops using it,
>> so it has total commercial accountability to the community.
>
>
> Arjuna
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