>Do you see problems with this scheme? There's considerable >interest and momentum in end user owned routing infrastructure, >including wireless ad hoc meshes across urban areas.
I've seen remarkably little overlap between the people that think ad hoc meshes are a fabulous liberating technology and the people who understand how they work and what their limitatations are. As a way to bring some sort of service to unserved areas, they're interesting. As a substitute for a real network, they're not. R's, John