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  • You are right. It is not a new idea, but most if not all other projects that were mentioned in the comments are dead by now.

  • Well in decentralized, autonomous (user run) systems you have actually 0 trust.

  • Who said that I would use them? Maybe I just want them laying around and collecting dust? /s

  • Just owning lockpicks does noy make you a thief.

  • Fork it!

  • You've ruined it! Please hide your revelation behind a spoiler warning.

  • All better than that piggyboy getting free money

  • Thank you once again for the detailed explanation!

  • Thank you! You explained it really well. As I understand it, most of the physical infrastructure for data transmission belongs to some private company. These companies sell the usage rights to smaller companies and so on. So these companies are the ISPs. In this sense, you would either have to build your own network infrastructure (cables, routers, switches) or rent the infrastructure from the owners.

    The physical infrastructure is basically largely independent of the protocols that run through it (optical cables simply carry light). Couldn't this infrastructure then somehow be used as a direct connection between two users via a protocol other than IP?

  • What specifically do you find objectionable with ISPs or ICANN?

    They are a centralized government controlled organizations, which poses a fundamental problem for a neutral net.

    In the end the only thing you really need to pay for is the physical backbone and the energy to power your access point and the transmission. Everything software/routing related can, and as I see it, should be completely decentralized, independent and neutral.

  • Pardon my ignorance but if I would want to get rid of the whole ISP & ICANN gatekeeping alltogether, would I have to operate on a different layer 2 or layer 3 protocol? By that I mean if it would be enough to replace the IP with a decentralized protocol like B.A.T.M.A.N or Netsukuku?