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== Netsukuku and ICT infrastructure in the Developing World ==
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Netsukuku network: enabled self-made and self-sustained ICT infrastructure
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for developing countries.
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The end-users, in order to connect their PC to the rest of the World
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through the Internet, have to make a subscription with an Internet Operator.
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The Domain Names, as well, are the unique way by which a network attached
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device (which could consist of a computer, a file server, a network storage
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device, a fax machine, a cable modem, etc.) is known on the Internet,
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and are literally sold through the centralised system of the Domain
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Name System (DNS). Netsukuku, an Open Source software, downloadable
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from http://netsukuku.freaknet.org makes possible the creation of a
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new distributed global Net, expandable to an unlimited number of users,
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alternative, independent and totally apart from the Internet.
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The Netsukuku particular routing system, created by some members of the
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"Freaknet" group of Catania (Italy), allows the Net to be self-sustained,
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thanks to all the Net users, that share a small part of their own PC
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resources. Anybody has the chance to join the Net and, at the same time, to
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let other users do the same.
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In those countries and areas of the globe where Internet facilities are still
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not available, a public Net can be created and developed in a very simple way
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(i.e. through a wi-fi coverage), without depending on any Internet Operators.
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In the same way, all the contents holder will be able to share any documents
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simply from their PC, since a maximum of 256 hostnames can be recorded and
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automatically supported by each PC (i.e. node of the Net).
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Last but not least, inside Netsukuku Net all the users will have the chance to
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get through the Internet: in fact any user can get the connectivity to
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Internet from other users that share and devolve into the net the bandwidth
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they don't use at the moment.
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Netsukuku routing system differs from all the other protocols and algorithms:
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the existing dynamic schemes are solely utilised to create small and medium
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nets.
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The routers of Internet are also managed by different protocols as the OSPF,
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the RIP or the BGP, all based on different classical algorithms.
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These algorithms are able to find out the best path to reach a node in the
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net, but require a very high waste of CPU and memory. That's why inside
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Internet, all the routers are powerful computers specifically dedicated to
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this purpose. On the contrary, when a node hooks to Netsukuku, the net
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automatically rewrites itself, while all the other nodes, using a very small
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part of the CPU and of the memory resource (a few kb), recognised which are
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the fastest and more efficient routes to communicate with the new arrived.
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The nodes don't have privileges or limitations: when compared to other nodes,
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they are part of the net and give their contribution to its expansion and
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efficiency. The more they increase in number the more the net grows and
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becomes stable. In Netsukuku there is no any difference between private and
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public nets and talking about LAN become meaningless.
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-CLazop
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