Coordinator: SysterServer - xm (oooo) and Mara
Contributors: xm and Mara
from local networks to circumvention to intranets
P2P internet infrastructure: Domain, VPN Server (Tinc VPN), DNS, web server (nginx), and networked configuration; social and network typology, proxy, what are the affordances of the network and operations of protocols?
murthaugh and karagianni : https://psaroskalazines.gr/pdf/rosa_beta_25_jan_23.pdf
ezn / updated :: https://etherpad.hackersanddesigners.nl/p/hd_infrastructures-tinc
methodology: metaphors, analogy, visualise intersecting/sourcing with diff domains (arts, activism, literature, choreography)
/// -- sociopolitical theory around VPN Federation/ decentralization/ distributed services/ networking politics
// ---- organisational aesthetics, commodity frontiers, debugging, troubleshooting together
Structure:
History and topology of VPN --- what types of networks? origin/evolution of terminology
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?
break down the differences between mesh VPN, VPN for proxy
systerserver and allies, centralized IP, contributes to small scale server hosting
making infrastructures visible with the aid of diagrams, manuals, metaphors, performance
references
protocol,control, and networks, Galloway and Thacker 2004
Log out_: A glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization
software studies, a lexicon, editor Matthew Fuller
Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet, Olga Goriunova, 2012