Chapter 2b: Server Issues: Networked Infrastructure

Coordinator: SysterServer Contributors: xm (ooooo) and Mara

https://digitalcare.noho.st/pad/p/servpub

https://eth.leverburns.blue/p/servpub-2b

STRUCTURE

• Positionality of feminist servers:

data infrastructure literacy digital solidarity networks dependencies - alliancies - affinities vulgar marxism troubleshooting /debugging

• politics of networks

   --- regulatory bodies ICAN-RFC's develop/discuss standards

   differences between local and public/static IP --- scarcity of ipv4, how are they assigned, and ipv6. Politics and economics of IP distribution, how do they impose power structures?  see internet governance talk and notes by Vesna during /etc 

   --- companies ( ATT/BELL, Mictosft/...) develop protocols - (udp tc/ip) / encryption protocols 

• history and topology of VPN

   --- what types of networks? origin/evolution of terminology & use

   --- break down the differences between mesh VPN, VPN for proxy 

   --- open vpn - diffie hellman key / cryptodance