On 1/1/21 11:14 pm, John Gilmore via 44Net wrote:
Tony Langdon via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org wrote:
ZeroTier may be available on OpenWRT (I don't know if that's the case), but I highly doubt you'd find it on Cisco. It is available for Linux, Windows, Android and iOS, and is open source.
I think I see two problems with ZeroTier.
(1) ZeroTier isn't open source. It uses the "Business Source License 1.1" which only allows "non-production" use without buying a commercial license. See the README.md in https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne .
If you read the licence, there are additional use terms, that would cover production use. I can't see anything there that would prohibit our use. But still, good point. Anyway, if I'm reading it right, the licence will change to the Apache licence in 2025.
(2) ZeroTier uses encryption to tunnel packets around the Internet. That works great for everybody except for hams whose packets are transmitted over amateur frequencies. We certainly can't build anything that requires encryption into the basic 44net infrastructure (as we evolve it forward), since our whole goal is moving packets over amateur frequencies.
You wouldn't be using ZeroTier over the air, just like we don't use IPIP over the air. You'd setup a bridge or router at the point where radio meets the Internet, so data is sent in the clear, just like it is now.