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\title{\huge \bf Grow Your Own Network}
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\date{}
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\newcommand{\statement}[1]{\textbf{#1} \medskip}
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\begin{document}
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\begin{figure}[t]
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\centering
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\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{thefnf-logo.png}
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\end{figure}
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\maketitle
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\statement{We envision a world where communities build, maintain, and own their
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own share of the global computer network. Free networks, when properly
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engineered, offer their users both a greater say in the governance of their
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network, and more privacy in their communications. Being your own service
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provider is the only way to make sure that your service provider treats you
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right. We call this the principle of digital self-determination, and have
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designed, prototyped and test deployed a suite of network appliances that
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will facilitate the realization of this principle.}
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The free software community has developed a wide variety of software components
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to address various network related challenges. Americans For A Better Network,
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working with members of the community, is looking to take those components and
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deliver a turnkey, self-administered networking solution that will allow for
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cascading self-governance on local, regional and global scales.
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Paired with a cooperative network management suite and integrated cryptosystem,
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our tools will allow for the rapid, simple construction of cooperative
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autonomous systems, with end-to-end encryption enabled by default.
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The entire suite is designed to be deployed using the principle of emergence —
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meaning that it can be organized in a way that is bottom-up, top-down or
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middle-out. We call the network appliances FreedomNode, FreedomTower, and
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FreedomLink. The management suite is called AutoNOC, and the transparent
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cryptosystem is AutoTunnel.
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In addition to radically increasing network resilience, reducing the price of
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connectivity, and making networks more responsive to the needs of their
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participants, free network architectures will allow for groundbreaking
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localized applications of network technology. The uses of this technology are
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myriad, and the need is ubiquitous – anywhere in the world, the capacity for
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self-reliance and self-determination would be enhanced by the emergence of a
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free network. Inverting the power structure of our networks is bound to take a
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while, and we are still in the very beginning, but no idea holds greater
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liberating potential than this: computer networks should be funded, built, and
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maintained by those that use them.
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\end{document}
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