Workshop: PicoPeering
This text is the preamble of the pico peering agreement (PPA) taken from http://picopeer.net:
There are now many community networks, but they are seperated
geographically and socially and do not form a coherent network. This
document is an attempt to connect those network islands by providing
the minimum baseline template for a peering agreement between owners of
individual network nodes - the Pico Peering Agreement.
The PPA is a way of formalizing the interaction between two peers. Owners of network nodes assert their right of ownership by declaring their willingness to donate the free exchange of data across their networks.
The PPA is maintained at http://picopeer.net by a group of
volunteers from around the world. It is intended to be used as a
template for other small-scale peering documents and licenses.
Questions:
How useful is the PPA in practice, is it used at all and does it need further changes? The US American organisation freenetworks.org has adopted it a few month ago and made some modifications you can see here: http://freenetworks.org/peering.html.
Do we need to fork (PPA/FNPA) or can we come back to one document again? Which modifications are needed?