Re: [obscurity-interest] GNU Free Call

[Dean Willis <[e-mail]>]

On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:

> Hi Christian,
> 
> On 03/21/2011 10:37 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
>>> Not obscure, but at least slightly opaque:
>>> 
>>> http://planet.gnu.org/gnutelephony/?p=14
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Question: What could be done to reduce the "stand out", or "obviousness" of a SIPWitch node?
>> 
>> P2P SIP comes to mind. Especially if we can use a form of P2P that allows for "local" discovery, without sending traffic to central points.
>> 
> 
> I am not sure to understand what you mean by local discovery.  Can you elaborate?  (I plan to release a FOSS implementation of RELOAD this year.  I'll let someone else do the SIP part, but I am interested on requirements for the P2P part).
> 


Bootstrap phase. Do we rely on a well-known server listed in DNS to find or form an overlay,  or can it be entirely accomplished with something like bonjour?

I'm reminded of the "toothing" hoax a few years back:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothing

With  a P2P communications architecture it might be possible to discover that people in the local broadcast domain want to hook up. Or to discover that they are injured and require emergency assistance, or that they are fellow emergency responders trying to organize a response.

--
Dean