Re: [homenet] homenet: what now? ... next?

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> Sun, 03 March 2019 11:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] homenet: what now? ... next?
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>> It should be an easy fix, feel free to go ahead.

> The point of soliciting participation at hackathon is for us to gain
> collective experience on the easy or difficulty of deploying homenet in
> practice.

Oh, that's different, and not at all the motivation you give in your
previous mail.  Experience shows that the best way to make something
happen is to organise it oneself, and therefore you should feel free to
organise a Homenet tutorial yourself, just like you should feel free to
fix yourself the issues you're having with hnetd.

I'm not sure that you'll find much of an audience, though -- as you
rightly point out, there doesn't appear to be much excitement left around
Homenet, and the main contributors appear to have moved on with their
lives.  It's been six years, after all.  (For my part, my IETF funding
runs out in September.)

On that subject, you might remember the talk I gave about HNCP deployment
back in 2016.  The conclusions were that a first year student who had
never done any networking before was able to deploy an HNCP+Babel mesh
network in two weeks, and most of that time was spent learning to reflash
off-the-shelf routers from scratch.

    https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/96/materials/slides-96-homenet-1

-- Juliusz