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id="x1-2r1"> Mohsen BANAN
http://mohsen.banan.1.byname.net/ContactMe Neda Communications, Inc.
http://www.neda.com April 2009
http://www.neda.com/PLPC/100109
Varbatim Copying Permitted

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Causes for Concern

• Networks are societal resources and their usage model must not be left to free markets and business.
• The mobile Internet is today controlled by large corporations, and critical civil liberties are being compromised.
• Current Copyright and Patent laws are in conflict with nature and are harming humanity.
• As first generation engineers we have a responsibility to safeguard the societal welfare. The goal of this project is to:

Liberate Texting Texting is Big Business

• Interpersonal communication on the go is
  the key value proposition for mobile networks

Texting: the Numbers Sources: (Revenue) IFPI. RIAA; (Top five texters) Ovum, Quantifica Texting: Future Trends Sources: Acision; CTIA

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A Side-by-Side Real-World Comparison

• Existing: Mobile Phone Companies

• vs.

• New: Internet + Libre Software + Public Spectrum

Now Let’s Compare

• Coverage

• Speed of delivery

• Ease of use / size / battery

• Cost

• Reliability

• Privacy / health / model
  (to be discussed)

• Texting vs. Libre Texting

• Good Fair

• Good Excellent

• Good Good

• Low Lower

• Good Good

• (Poor) (Excellent)

Libre Texting: the Run it Yourself Model

• Device: Get it yourself

• • Hardware platform: Linux PDAs; free market

• • Free/Libre software

• Service: Run it yourself

• • Libre Services

• Network: Own it yourself

• • Public spectrum, free protocols, free software

Device: Get it Yourself

• Fully integrated; ready to run

• • http://store.neda.com

• Hardware platform

• • Linux PDAs; Nokia 810

• Ready-to-run software

• • http://www.bybinary.org

Service: Run it Yourself

• For the individual

• • http://www.byname.net

• • http://www.byalias.net

• Corporate: software + CPE (customer-premises equipment)

• • http://www.bybinary.org

• Corporate: software as service

• • http://www.ForSMB.net

Network: Own it Yourself

• WiFi always used for final-leg device access

• WiFi++

• • Final-leg WiFi + MURS (narrowband)

• • Final-leg WiFi + WiMax etc. (broadband)

• • Complete details in Libre Texting with {WiFi++}
    http://www.neda.com/PLPC/100027

• Note to FCC:
  More public spectrum please!

Public IP Address Internet WiFi++ Network Overview Device: Linux PDA E.g. Nokia 810 Access Point Mobile Companion WiFi Only WiFi++ Base Station Device: Linux PDA E.g. Nokia 810 Implementing By* Libre Texting: Scenario: WiFi-Only

• 1. Buy a Linux PDA, e.g. Nokia 810

• 2. Load it with mobile texting software

• • http://www.bybinary.org/

• Or 1 & 2 combined: buy a preconfigured Nokia 810 texting device

• • http://store.neda.com/

• 3. Get a ByName Libre Texting account

• • http://www.byname.net/

Implementing By* Libre Texting: Scenario: WiFi++

• First, steps 1, 2 and 3.

• Then:

• 4. Buy an MURS radio/modem

• 5. Activate the modem on Neda mobile network

• Try it!

• Simple and functional

The Many Dimensions of By* Libre Texting

• Libre Texting: a real-world alternative to texting

• Analysis of the texting medium

• Engineering execution: protocols, software, spectrum

• Libre Services model: philosophy, morality, legality

• By* Libre Texting Services

• Business Dimensions

• History

• Evaluation, participation, collaboration. Join us!

The Texting Medium: Now Well Established

• Content: Short text messages

• Expected near-immediate delivery

• Expected immediate alert

• Unconscious carry

• Mobile and always on

Texting: a Very Simple Application

1

Mobile and wireless network connectivity

1

Message submission (sending)

1

Message delivery (receiving)

1

Message processing (edit, save, reply, mailbox synchronize, etc.)

Texting: a Very Demanding Application

1

Speed (delivery expectation: less than 10 seconds)

1

Network capacity and efficiency (bandwidth)

1

Device limitations (battery)

1

Reliability (no lost messages)

1

Scalability (eventually the whole planet’s population)

1

Coverage (eventually everywhere)

The Texting Medium Today: Owned and Controlled

• Dominated by SMS and BlackBerry

• Based on the phone model

• Inside the phone companies’ walled garden

• Not end-to-end: violates privacy

• Distinct from email

• Limited choice and non-transparent

The Wireless Service Provider Controls Everything

• Network Control

• Licensed spectrum Proprietary network

• Owned IP addresses Controlled protocols

• Filtered traffic Walled garden model

• Device Ownership

• Part of the network Selected by provider Heavily patented

• Proprietary software Heavily protected

Our Goal: Liberate Texting

• Break the phone companies’ hold

• Make texting a Libre Service

• Break the walled garden: make it end-to-end

• Move it to the for-profit, non-proprietary quadrant

• Bring texting into the Internet mainstream

Breaking the Phone Companies’ Hold

• Licensed spectrum Public spectrum: WiFi, MURS

• Closed networks Mobile end-to-end Internet: Mobile-IPv6,
  public IP address space allocation

• Patented protocols Patent-free protocols:
  EMSD, IMAP, SMTP

• Closed device paradigm GNU/Linux everywhere

• Walled garden applications End-to-end services

Texting vs. Libre Texting

• Today’s Texting

• Closed device model

• Limited applications

• Bundled device + service
  

• Walled garden Internet

• Little privacy

• Advantage: Company

• Libre Texting

• Linux PDAs

• Free/Libre applications

• Device modularity: best-of-class choice

• End-to-end Internet

• Choice of privacy

• Advantage: User

The Many Dimensions of By* Libre Texting

• Libre Texting: a real-world alternative to texting

• Analysis of the texting medium

• Engineering execution: protocols, software, spectrum

• Libre Services model: philosophy, morality, legality

• By* Libre Texting execution

• By* Libre Services Open Business Plan

• History

• Evaluation, participation, collaboration. Join us!

Execution Strategy

• Non-proprietary: All patent-free and all Copyleft

• For-profit: Fully commercial and fully business oriented

• Collaborative development

• Competitive delivery

Libre Texting: Parts List

• Network

• • Public spectrum (unlicensed)

• • Existing Mobile and wireless networks

• Device

• • Hardware: Linux PDAs (N-810, Mobile Internet Device)

• • Software: Free/Libre -Linux (Maemo, Ubuntu MID)

• Server and Service

• • Free/Libre server software

• • Competitive Libre Texting services

• Protocols

• • Efficient push-enabled patent-free protocols

Network Connectivity: WiFi++

• Where there is no WiFi network connectivity,

• use WiFi as a bridge to other network connectivity.
  

• (e.g.) Public MURS: 150 MHz, nationwide

• • Narrowband & slow

• • Entirely adequate for texting

• • Libre Texting with {WiFi++} http://www.neda.com/PLPC/100027

Public IP Address Internet WiFi++ Network Overview Device: Linux PDA E.g. Nokia 810 Access Point Mobile Companion WiFi Only WiFi++ Base Station Device: Linux PDA E.g. Nokia 810 Libre Texting with WiFi++ and Existing Mobile Networks

• Early Off the shelf example: MiFi

• WiMAX-WiFi++

• • ClearWire Service

• • Linux router laptop with Atheros WiFi Access Point

• MURS-WiFi++

• • Libre MURS Network

• • Linux router laptop with Atheros WiFi Access Point

Libre Texting Device Hardware: Supported Linux PDAs (2009)

• Nokia 810 (primary)

• ZipIt, etc.

Libre Texting Device Software

• Sophisticated access point detection

• Push delivery (openvpn + neda-emsd-ua.deb)

• Message alert: Texting style

• Mail User Agent (Gnus Emacs, Claws Mail, etc.)

• • Enhanced by texting-mode user interface

• Mail synchronization (offlineimap.deb)

Libre Texting Server Software

• qmail for SMTP, Submit, etc.

• Courier IMAP

• qmail-EMSD

• open-vpn server

• Web mail (SquirrelMail)

• etc.

• http://www.neda.com/PLPC/110504

Send / Receive Steps

• Mobility

• • Device: Detect and Select an Access Point

• • Device: Establish end-to-end IP connectivity (NAT)

• • Device: Initiate a VPN tunnel Use Permanent Address

• Delivery Push Mail To Device

• • Server: Recognize Device reachability Send EMSD-Deliver

• • Device: Receive with EMSD-UA-Deliver Alert MUA

• Submission From Device

• • Device: Use EMSD to submit message

• • Server: Inject the message into Internet MTS

Efficient Push-Mode Texting Protocols

• SMTP/IMAP/POP/QMTP are non-starters for texting: connection-oriented, verbose and poll-mode. See efficiency comparison, later.

• EMSD: designed for texting, and the only efficient open protocol

• Component oriented

• Texting/email continuum

The Key Requirement: Efficiency

• Minimize number of bytes transferred

• Minimize number of transmissions

• • (fewer transmissions for lower energy consumption & longer battery life)

• Minimize user-experience response time

• Minimize code size

• Support miniaturized devices

EMSD, SMTP, IMAP, POP Delivery Comparison: Number of Packets EMSD, SMTP, IMAP, POP Delivery Comparison: Number of Bytes SMTP and EMSD: Efficiency Comparison EMSD Internet RFCs

• RFC-2188

• Efficient Short Remote Operation (ESRO) Protocol Specification

• • Maintenance Organization: http://www.esro.org

• • Software: http://www.bysource.org

• RFC-2524

• EMSDP (Efficient Mail Submission & Delivery Protocol)

• • Maintenance Organization: http://www.emsd.org

• • Software: http://www.bybinary.org

The Many Dimensions of By* Libre Texting

• Libre Texting: a real-world alternative to texting

• Analysis of the texting medium

• Engineering execution: protocols, software, spectrum

• Libre Services model: philosophy, morality, legality

• By* Libre Texting Service

• By* Libre Services Open Business Plan

• History

• Evaluation, participation, collaboration. Join us!

In English Free is ambiguous: We need the word Libre

• Free can mean Libre:
  free as in freedom of action

• Free can mean Gratis:
  free as in zero monetary cost

Nature at work: Non-material constructs flourish when free from ownership When we say free we will always mean Libre: freedom of action Libre Services

• • A non-proprietary model

• • for

• • delivery of Internet services

Proprietary vs. Non-Proprietary; Software vs. Services From Software Wars to Service Wars Extension of Free Software into Libre Services Transformation of Free Software into Libre Services Libre Services: Definitional Criteria

• 1. The service must consist entirely of open-source & free software components

• 2. The service must be based entirely on patent-free protocols

• 3. The integration software must consist entirely of free software

• Hence the entire service is reproducible and modifiable
  based on access to source code

Non-Profit and For Profit: Roles and Responsibilities Benefits to Society

• Engineered for the user, not for business

• Civil liberties: services operated by the user, for the user

• Privacy and security

• Service stability and continuity

• Complex integration of user environments with services

The Many Dimensions of By* Libre Texting

• Libre Texting: a real-world alternative to texting

• Analysis of the texting medium

• Engineering execution: protocols, software, spectrum

• Libre Services model: philosophy, morality, legality

• By* Libre Texting execution

• By* Libre Services Open Business Plan

• History

• Evaluation, participation, collaboration. Join us!

• By* Libre Texting

• • Libre Services + By* Family = By* Services

• • Libre Texting + By* Services = By* Libre Texting

• • By* Libre Texting:

• • the strategic spearhead for By* Libre Services

By* Libre Texting: Part of a Bigger Picture

• • Texting must be fully integrated into the user’s

• • computing and communications environment

• • By* Libre Services

By* Services Overview By* Features and Capabilities

• A named entity domain, owned by the entity

• • A public website: My Internet

• • An expanded website for friends: My Extranet

• • A private portal: My Intranet

• By* Libre Self-Publication Facility

• By* Libre Texting

• Email, e-fax, etc.

• Blog, photo gallery, GeneWeb, etc.

By* Libre Services: Software Components

• Debian GNU/Linux

• Base: djbdns, daemontools, ucspi, multilog, etc.

• Mail: qmail, courier, spamassassin, ezmlm, etc.

• Web: apache, zope, plone, etc.

• Misc: postgres, mysql, Interchange, etc.

• Glue: Libre Services Integration Platform (LSIP)

Service, Desktop, Laptop, PDA Continuum

• Free/Libre everywhere

• Consistent OS: Linux everywhere

• Consistent GUI: Gnome everywhere

• Consistent Applications: Emacs etc., everywhere

• Deep, broad and consistent integration through
  Free Software and Libre Services

The Libre Texting/Email Continuum

• Not two different things

• Synchronized

• A quick interface for texting

• A rich interface for email

• The Unix way: components working together

The Many Dimensions of By* Libre Texting

• Libre Texting: a real-world alternative to texting

• Analysis of the texting medium

• Engineering execution: protocols, software, spectrum

• Libre Services model: philosophy, morality, legality

• By* Libre Texting execution

• By* Libre Services Open Business Plan

• History

• Evaluation, participation, collaboration. Join us!

The Neda Open Business Plan

• http://www.neda.com/StrategicVision/BusinessPlan

• Open Business Plan: available to all

• Broad audience: engineers, academics, investors

• Jujitsu on patents and copyright

• Engineers start here:

• http://www.neda.com/StrategicVision/Participating/Engineering

• Investors start here:

• http://www.neda.com/StrategicVision/Participating/Investment/StartHere

For Profit and Non-Proprietary: the Right Paradigm for Non-Material Constructs From Free Software to Libre Services with a Clear Revenue Model Transformation of software into services Proprietary software Free software Execution and Revenues: Clear and Straightforward

• Execution

• Device: Linux PDAs, in place

• Service: By*, in place

• Mobile network: in place

• Revenues

• Individual:
  subscription

• • Software: Libre/Free, in place

• • Public spectrum: in place

• • Plan: Well developed, in place

• • Vertical
    integration

• • Products:
    CPE+service

• • Corporate:
    software as service

The Many Dimensions of By* Libre Texting

• Libre Texting: a real-world alternative to texting

• Analysis of the texting medium

• Engineering execution: protocols, software, spectrum

• Libre Services model: philosophy, morality, legality

• By* Libre Texting execution

• By* Libre Services Open Business Plan

• History

• Evaluation, participation, collaboration. Join us!

History

• We’ve been at this a very long time:

• CDPD and LSM (1994)

• pACT (1996)

• RFC-2188 (1998), and RFC-2524 (1999)

• The WAP Trap (2000)

• Operation WhiteBerry (2001)

• The LEAP Manifesto (2001)

• Libre Services Strategic Vision (2007)

• By* Libre Texting (2009)

AT&T pACT Revisited12 Years Later

• Spectrum: 2 *50/50 kHz paired $160 million

• Devices: PCSI, etc. $20 million

• Message Center, Net, Air Link $60 million

• Development abandoned in 1997. Total cost: $240 million

AT&T pACT

• Spectrum: WiFi & MURS (public) $0

• Devices: Nokia 810, ZipIt $0

• qmail, mobile-ip, emsd (free software) $0

• All you need to do is integrate it $4 million

• Total cost: $4 million

Libre Texting Evolution of Operation WhiteBerry into Libre Texting

• Operation WhiteBerry

• http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100006

• Had several external dependencies:

• • 1. Closed and limited network

• • 2. Closed proprietary devices

• • 3. Entry into walled gardens

Ten Years Later

• 1999

• Licensed spectrum

• Few closed networks

• Closed devices

• Little Libre software

• Walled garden

• 2009

• Public spectrum

• Many open networks

• Devices opening up

• A lot of Libre software

• Awareness of the harm

The Many Dimensions of By* Libre Texting

• Libre Texting: a real-world alternative to texting

• Analysis of the texting medium

• Engineering execution: protocols, software, spectrum

• Libre Services model: philosophy, morality, legality

• By* Libre Texting execution

• By* Libre Services Open Business Plan

• History

• Evaluation, participation, collaboration. Join us!

This is big and we are small, but lots is in place

• EMSD protocols

• By* Libre Services

• Leadership of the Libre Services movement

• Fully committed to Libre: GNU/Linux everywhere

• Our own Data Center: LibreCenter.net

• Our own wireless network (MURS, WiFi)

• Well-developed Business Plan

For you to Evaluate: All our Cards on the Table

• Open Business Plan 2009 By* Libre Services

• Libre Services Manifesto PLPC-100105

• By* full documentation PLPC-110004

• Unsolicited Proposal PLPC-110005

• By* Libre Texting PLPC-110012

• Operation Whiteberry PLPC-100006

• LEAP Manifesto PLPC-100012

Join Us! Make it Happen in a Big Way

• Engineering community: Ideas, code, integration

• Business community: Buy into the Libre model, take the code, partner up, deploy the services

• Investment community: Financing

• Academic community: Ideas, code, integration, analysis, discussion

• Funding NGOs: Grants

• Government: Grants

• Society: Usage, testing, dialogue, awareness

• Media: Articles, analysis, discussion

Current Active Projects

• Sophisticated access point selection

• Qmail/EMSD integration

• Mail alert

• Linux PDA ports: Android, ZipIt

• EMSD and ESRO enhancements

• Texting GUI

• Mobile IP

• Public spectrum AirLink