Hi An interesting idea & some insightful discussion, on creating a utopian layer of the internet which is independent of ISPs. http://wiki.omegasdg.com/index.php?title=Project_Kleinrock via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2668887 Best, ashish On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:10 AM, ashish makani <ashish.makani@gmail.com>wrote:

Hi Folks

GNU Free Call is a new project to develop and deploy secure self-organized communication services worldwide for private use and for public administration. It uses the open standard SIP protocol and GNU SIP Witch to create secured peer-to-peer mesh calling networks .

It may have interesting applications for truly secure, open & decentralized communications, which can stay up, in the event of a natural disaster etc.

http://planet.gnu.org/gnutelephony/?p=14

via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322881

Best, ashish