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Commotion possède un nouveau site Internet (commotionwireless.net) depuis quelques mois seulement (nous avions même eu la chance d'assister aux réunions de pré lancement-test- du site web en août 2012 à Washington). Lors de notre exploration de cette plateforme, nous étions pourtant passés à côté de ce post très intéressant qui présente (et "justifie" dans un sens) le travail et les réflexions des ingénieurs de Commotion (projet mené par l'Open Technology Initiative au sein de la New America Foundation à Washington DC voir ce précédent billet).Ce texte a plus d'un intérêt car il montre de quelle manière le Work Department (auteur du billet en question) du projet Commotion considère  l'utilisation d'architectures distribuées comme une plus-value. Il cherche également à expliciter le choix de développer des services distribués ET mobiles dans une ville telle que Détroit. Il montre enfin l'attention portée par ces ingénieurs à l'écologie globale dans lequel le système technique qu'ils développent prend place:&#160;As we worked through other parts of the Commotion project, we brainstormed ideas for wireless mesh applications. We noticed that our ideas would often replicate existing web services — e.g. a local fileserver for music or movies, or a local message board for neighborhood discussion. We began to wonder what would make a community wireless application more appealing than using a centralized Internet-based application. We agreed that it wouldn’t be enough to offer someone the simple satisfaction of knowing their data is decentralized... there would need to be some other benefits to using a local application.What would these benefits be? What is special about the architecture of a community wireless mesh network? In pondering these questions, we considered what is provided by these networks — earlier, I mentioned that the networks provide internet connection sharing and local file sharing, but that’s only a part of the story. These networks also provide something much grander: they become community institutions. Unlike the Comcast hardware that is bolted out of arm’s reach on a utility pole, our community wireless equipment lives on our porches, in chicken coops, in our bell towers, and next to our desks. Each piece of equipment has a story behind it. We know who held the ladder while it was being installed and who lent their hammer drill to run a cable up to it.A community mesh wireless router’s IP address is more than a 32-bit number. It has history and meaning. How can we build applications that reflect and enhance this?&#160;LIRE LE TEXTE COMPLET ICI (https://commotionwireless.net/blog/exploring-meshaging)&#160;Références:http://oti.newamerica.net/https://commotionwireless.net/http://detroitdjc.org/&#160;&#160;