[cap-talk] phones as routers

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 22:58 -0700, John Carlson wrote:
> When are we going to be able to communicate from phone to phone (or  
> computer to computer) w/o going through a centralized capitalistic  
> service provider?

Well, there has actually been a whole lot of work on ad-hoc networking
of this form in the research arena. It's harder to do this than it
sounds, but it is definitely doable.

> Who is working on the capability protocols and phone operating  
> systems required for this?

Why are capabilities required?


shap