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

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Sun, 03 March 2019 15:00 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 09:59:48 -0500
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Subject: Re: [homenet] homenet: what now? ... next?
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I do remember that talk. CS grad students are not our target market. Open
source distributions are a great demo, but I want this stuff in Ubiquiti
routers, Eero routers, etc.  it’s clear you aren’t interested in working on
it at the Hackathon, which is perfectly understandable, but I was asking if
anyone *is *interested because i can’t do it all by myself.

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 06:45 Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> wrote:

> >> 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
>