mechanisms tied to mesh: "under a tree" collab

[Greg Smith]

Hi All,

Very interesting thread on the wireless, mesh and collaboration 
technologies.

I think part of the discussion is a debate about what is the best 
technology to achieve our goals.

In terms of what the goals are, I wrote a definition of what I think our 
collaboration needs to do at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0_Collaboration_Requirements

The requirements are focused mostly on scale but also touching on ways 
people collaborate.

See also:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Collaboration_2
and
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Collaboration

This will be an important focus of 9.1. Any additions, comments or edits 
on the requirements are welcome. e.g. RF environment could use more 
details and power consumption is not covered. John's bulleted list may 
also be a valuable addition to the requirements if its not covered 
already. Feel free to edit the page and sign your edits or leave a 
suggestion on the talk page.

My questions for this thread are:
1 - Which technology can address all of these requirements?
2 - Which technology can get us closest in the next few months based on 
the available engineering time and existing code?

I'm interested to know what people think is the right solution given 
unlimited time and resources. I'm more interested to get agreement on 
what we can nail down and promise as a working set of features usable in 
schools when 9.1 becomes available in ~6 months from now. We don't want 
to do a lot of work that we throw away later but we need to settle on a 
usable set of features and capabilities that we can prove work reliably.

Thanks,

Greg S