[Wormnet] Hello group

[David R. Wilson]

Hello Everyone,

I met Marcel several years ago.  He has had some interesting ideas, and
I do think there is a need for some of the ideas he has been working on
to be improved upon and implemented.

My thoughts about the over view of some goals for the project are as
follows. 

1.  We need a system to route traffic to and from the Internet for
roaming wireless connections.  Currently if someone changes which WAP
they are using for an access point the connection drops.

To do this I envision something along the lines of the DNS system.  A
system that is distributed that figures out routing for the nodes
as the nodes change locations / connections.

2.  The software that the wireless device uses for routing / connections
needs to be usable on multiple platforms and should not be tied to a
particular hardware platform or bandwidth requirement.


3.  The software needs to have some way to decide how to route the
traffic, and which route is best to use.  If a 100MB connection is
running, however it has 99% packet loss and a 128 KB connection is solid
and also available, route the traffic to the connection that is working
the best.  This has been one of the problems with RSPF routing.

4.  Some provision needs to be made to decide how to prioritize the
traffic.  Bandwidth availability will change drastically as nodes move
or propagation changes.


5.  Try to minimize the noise on the channel.  Air time used takes away
bandwidth that can be used by neighboring stations.  We don't want the
'Im Here... Im Here... You can ignore me now'  messages being
transmitted that you see from Windows networking.

I am not addressing issues such as authentication and possible VPN
ideas.  I think they need to be worked on as another part of the
development.  I believe we are looking at something that needs to be
broken down into layers.  A connection layer and a data layer.  Data
could be encrypted, connection information may be best left so it could
be traced / debugged.

Thoughts?

Dave