Re: [44net] Money for Wireless Research

Decentralize the web is indeed what we have always been doing. Probably because we started in the times when the internet was still very decentralized and all communication was peer-to-peer. Lately, internet has been transformed into a client-server network much like the telephone BBS world was in those days: there are users, they connect to some server where all they want to have can be found and stored. This is also a reason why IPv6 has not really taken off. The design principle behind IPv6, to have enough addresses to assign one to every device and have all of those devices communicate peer-to-peer, has largely been abandoned on the internet. There is no reason anymore to have a different address for every device. In fact, now that we have the AMPRnet coming alive again here, many of the users are so accustomed to this way of working that they implement it on their ham network as well: everything NATted behind a single IP address. Even though they can just apply for a subnet large enough for their shack. Maybe we should invest in explaining the difference between our network and the internet as it is used today, and how this change on internet came about. It could help people think different. Rob