Hello all,
I've been musing about how it could be for a freenet-like project to try
to leverage the mobile trend. Today, smartphones are basically pocket
computers and, for something as resource-heavy as freenet may be still
ill-suited. However, I remember when I laughed at the idea of Youtube
and video-on-demand (my country, at that time, was clearly behind the
times on internet access, so I couldn't contemplate anything but
download first and see later), and now it's painful how foolish and
short-sighted I was. So why not brainstorm about a purely mobile-based,
censor-resistant project, for the fun of it.
I have not given too much time to this so I will list in no particular
order a series of bullet points that I see more or less clearly. Your
impressions welcome!
* It's clearly possible that I've missed a project already doing
something like this. Is this so?
* Smartphones have currently several drawbacks for this kind of use:
battery life, data plans, and storage. Others?
* To tackle the two first ones, I see in the beginning a high-latency
use when you'd only connect to the network when the phone is plugged-in
and connected to some wifi. As limiting as this seems, this still amount
to 15+ hours a day in my case (during work & sleep time).
* Limited storage: I could, right now, devote something like 200-500 MB
from my phone. Stretching it, I could go to 1GB. I think this is
simultaneously bad and good: Bad because this precludes sharing large
amounts of info, but good because it would act as a forceful limit on
the amount of data being put on the network, at least in the beginning.
I think, anyway, that this would be one of the first constraints to
become irrelevant.
* NATed connections: Until IPv6 is the standard, I guess most
connections would be from behind routers. I'm a bit years behind on this
topic but I guess UPnP should do the trick.
* Leverage user contacts to bootstrap a darknet-like topology: I'm not
sure about the implications of this. Still, I envision a three-level
contact priority: manually approved contacts (akin to darknet ones),
then contacts from the agenda but not manually approved, then
opennet-like ones found automatically by the network somehow.
That's all that comes to my mind right now. Cheers!
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