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dear CU wireless, and dear OpenVPN. http://advogato.org/article/920.html outlines the reasons why it is necessary to move up out of IPv4 and into IPv6, and it also hints at the technology modifications and algorithms required to do that. your respective projects contribute to a larger project. they each provide a critical part of the infrastructure needed to make the larger project happen. your input is therefore solicited to thrash this out into a proper working paper, implementations etc., and it would be nice to have some questions on the advogato list. if you cannot post to advogato please create an account, contact me with a justification as to why i should Certify you (a url pointing to web sites, google searches or other such relevance would do the trick as a one-line justification) and i will do so. if you do not _want_ to post to advogato then i will be happy to relay your comments (anonymously if you wish) to the article, with your permission of course. one important thing: i'm very sorry, but i do have to say this. some of you may have already heard of me, and may be going 'oh my god, not him again'. two things: 1) read the article. you will see that it's too important an issue to go 'oh my god, not him again'. 2) for various (nasty) reasons, but mostly due to my own open-ness (called naivety by some), the dotcom boom that happened to put stacks of wonga into free software people's pockets completely went by me, and, despite many opportunities for people to correct these oversights, the opportunities were not taken by the people who were in a position to do so. i therefore have to do proprietary software development in order to put food on the table, and i do not have any time or money to give to you which, given the utmost importance of this issue, i most certainly would do, if i could. therefore: any emails saying things like "well if you're so clever, why don't _you_ implement this?" and "show me the code" will therefore go down extremely badly - so don't do it. read the article. you're all technically-aware people who read slashdot or other news outlets: you can blatantly see what's happening to the internet: it's crumbling, defragmenting, being fought over and overloaded, and that's why you (cu-wireless) are creating the infrastructure that you are - to avoid those problems. however, it's necessary to communicate not just locally but globally, but without it being attacked. and that's where OpenVPN comes in to play. by treating IPv4 as just another carrier, and by applying spread-spectrum techniques and randomising the relays, it's possible to totally bypass the problems and begin again. i _think_ it might even be possible to solve the problems of routing between constantly-changing wireless mesh networks, by moving the routing between meshes down on to multiple IPv4 relays. so, any IPv4 relay that happens to be acessible by one of the wireless meshes gets automatically added to the OpenVPN list of 'servers' which perform routing to other wireless meshes. good luck! l. -- lkcl.net - mad free software computer person, visionary and poet. -- ______________________ OpenVPN mailing lists https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |