The Coalition Peering Domain: A New Entity on the Routing Landscape

This report details the investigations undertaken to date in the general area of community-area networking. It proposes that existing networking mechanisms are not suited sufficiently to enable a newly emerging class of community-area network; one where individuals connect together directly their home and personal-area networks, to form a local neighbourhood mesh or community network. A background and motivation for further research into this problem space is provided and a work-plan is outlined to better enable this newly emerging class of community-area network. The work-plan includes proposals to highlight also the wider-reaching implications of the thesis of this work beyond the neighbourhood context.