[CWN-Summit] COMMONS is coming.

[Sascha Meinrath]

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Hi everyone,

Esme Vos wrote:
> This is an excellent thread and I posted an article on Muniwireless
> about this, too bad you are not posting comments on my site where a lot
> of muni officials come for information. I will try to post a summary of
> our arguments here (no names revealed, though).

Just a quick reminder, the cwn-summit list is _publicly_ archived.

Meanwhile, a group of folks from across North America have been working to build
a nation-wide peered network to interconnect community, business, municipal,
regional, and state, networks together to form the COMMONS network.  I just had
a great conversation with Tom West yesterday (head of the National Lambda Rail)
and he's gung-ho to partner on this initiative -- so we'll probably have 10Gbps
national fiber access through NLR.  We'll be publicly releasing the report from
the COMMONS Strategy Workshop very soon -- meanwhile, you can find out more
about the project here:

http://www.caida.org/projects/commons

Obviously, the COMMONS Project will drive an entirely new class of services and
will impact notions of community/municipal networking throughout the country.

Stay tuned!

- --Sascha

> Sincerely,
> 
> Esme Vos
> Founder
> Muniwireless.com
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> *Muniwireless Dallas Conference*
> March 4-6, 2007
> www.mw07tx.com
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>> From: Harold Feld <hfeld at mediaaccess.org>
>> Subject: Re: [CWN-Summit] Re: Mayor prorosed giving away public
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>> At 08:48 PM 2/3/2007, Michael Oh wrote:
>>> Now, I do qualify this by saying that the Boston model - based on the
>>> establishment of a non-profit organization that forces structural
>>> separation between the wholesale and retail sides of the network -
>>> has not been proven either.  If anything, our ideas have slowed the
>>> progress in Boston while the city has to try to find the funding to
>>> make the model work.  But we do feel confident that, even if slow,
>>> the Boston approach (or any similar approach that double-checks all
>>> the details) is still better in the end.
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>> Mike, this is exactly right.
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>> Getting pressured into a wrong deployment because a real
>> community-based deployment is "too slow" is a recipe for
>> disaster.  It's like cutting out mandatory building code safety
>> features to get a tunnel done on time. :-)  In the end, you pay far
>> more by trying to short cut the process than you do by having a
>> reasonably paced build out.
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>> Harold
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