[cap-talk] phones as routers

[Toby Murray]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:31 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 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?
> 
I'd say they're not but that a capability OS is the  right platform for
this sort of thing.

I believe that one of the original motivating examples of the NICTA work
on their cap-based L4 (can never remember the different names for theirs
and the European cap-based L4) is for small embedded, mobile systems
such as phones and similar devices.