[Npoc-discuss] New NPOC member approved recently by NCSG EC.

[Nicolás Echániz]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the welcome :)

I believe the best introduction to what we do at AlterMundi is the short
video summary you'll find in our home page:
http://altermundi.net/

It's in spanish but subtitles are available in many languages, thanks to
the collaboration of the Community Networks movement around the world.

AlterMundi is an organization that fosters the rising of a new paradigm
founded on freedom gained through peer collaboration. We explore
different manifestations of these peer-to-peer alternatives and in
particular we do a great deal of work in relation to Wireless Community
Networks.

We have developed a WCN model that is specifically designed for small
rural or semi-rural settlements. It is based on very low-cost,
multi-radio mesh nodes running Libre-Mesh firmware[1], which
automatically configures the mesh network. The firmware can be
customized using a web tool we call the Chef. We also provide tunnel
broker service through Librenet6[2], for community networks that don't
have access to native IPv6 connection in their region.

Several network projects in South America and other regions have already
adopted the tools we have developed.


Regarding DNS related issues, we have developed a dynamic resolution
implementation that let's every community network using
Librenet6+Libre-Mesh make their hosts resolution work globally. This is
based on dnsmask and uses dhcp leases to populate the DNS server's data
for the community network domain.
FQHNs take the form: hostname.red.domain.org; for example:
dig AAAA intiuata.red.deltalibre.org.ar @8.8.8.8

will answer:
intiuata.red.deltalibre.org.ar.	601 IN	AAAA 2a00:1508:af9:a800::47:d2f1

a more complete perspective can be seen running:
dig AAAA  intiuata.red.deltalibre.org.ar @8.8.8.8 +trace


The combination of this dynamic resolution with global IPv6 provided by
the community tunnel broker offers the people in these networks what we
believe is a unique situation which greatly improves their Peer to Peer
experience in the Internet, as they can transparently publish globally
reachable services easily from any connected host.


As you can guess we do a lot of experimental work from an open source /
free knowledge perspective, so we'll be glad to share our work in this
list and it's member organizations. Just let us know if you need more
info on any subject.


Cheers!
NicoEchániz
AlterMundi.net

@nicoechaniz



[0] http://docs.altermundi.net/RedesMiniMaxi
[1] http://www.libre-mesh.org
[2] http://docs.altermundi.net/LibreNet6



On 07/21/2015 01:55 PM, Rudi Vansnick wrote:
> Dear NPOC members,
> 
> We are pleased to inform NCSG EC has approved a new NPOC member
> during the recent EC meeting. The new member is* Alter Mundi* from
> Argentina and *Nicolás Echániz* is the representative to NPOC/NCSG.
> Their website can be found at http://altermundi.net/
> 
> Dear Nicolás Echániz,
> 
> We welcome you in our community. Feel free to introduce your 
> organisation and yourself to the NPOC community. Share your
> interests and of course your concerns related to the DNS by posting
> them to this mailing list (NPOC Discuss), which is accessible to
> every NPOC member.
> 
> Hope to read you soon and have you on our NPOC calls in the near
> future (next call will be scheduled in August).
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Rudi Vansnick Chair Non-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency
> (NPOC) www.npoc.org <http://www.npoc.org>
> 
> rudi.vansnick at npoc.org Tel : +32 (0)9 329 39 16 Mobile : +32 (0)475
> 28 16 32
> 
> 
>