{"draft":"draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments-08","doc_id":"RFC7962","title":"Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, Characterization, Technologies, and Architectures","authors":["J. Saldana, Ed.","A. Arcia-Moret","B. Braem","E. Pietrosemoli","A. Sathiaseelan","M. Zennaro"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"43","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Global Access to the Internet for All Research Group","abstract":"This document presents a taxonomy of a set of \"Alternative Network                 \r\nDeployments\" that emerged in the last decade with the aim of bringing\r\nInternet connectivity to people or providing a local communication\r\ninfrastructure to serve various complementary needs and objectives.\r\nThey employ architectures and topologies different from those of\r\nmainstream networks and rely on alternative governance and business\r\nmodels.\r\n\r\nThe document also surveys the technologies deployed in these\r\nnetworks, and their differing architectural characteristics,\r\nincluding a set of definitions and shared properties.\r\n\r\nThe classification considers models such as Community Networks,\r\nWireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), networks owned by\r\nindividuals but leased out to network operators who use them as a\r\nlow-cost medium to reach the underserved population, networks that\r\nprovide connectivity by sharing wireless resources of the users, and\r\nrural utility cooperatives.","pub_date":"August 2016","keywords":["alternative network deployments","community networks","user-centric networks","Wireless Internet Service Providers","mainstream network","gaia","global access to the Internet for all"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7962","errata_url":null}