Sascha Meinrath

by: Sascha Meinrath SaschaMeinrath.com, "Public Ponderings..." Thursday, January 5, 2006

Meinrath, Sascha (2007). CALEA and Ownerless Networks. AKA FCC Mandated
Hacking. March 2, 2007. http://www.saschameinrath.com/blog_tags/calea
“It's impossible to create centralized surveillance capabilities on a
decentralized, often ad-hoc, network that spans numerous users,
gateways, providers, and equipment owners.”
This blog entry criticizes the failure of the FCC’s Communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to take into account
alternative network infrastructures and business models other than the

"Analyzing Broadband Penetration Rates, the Impacts of Connectivity and Network Neutrality"

by: Sascha Meinrath SaschaMeinrath.com, "Public Ponderings..." Thursday, January 5, 2006

Diebenow, Nathan (2006). Nothing But Net Neutrality. Interview with
Sascha Meinrath, Community Wireless Networks Expert. The Lone Star
Iconoclast, June 19, 2006.
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This is an interview with Sascha Meinrath of the Champaign-Urbana
Community Wireless Network (CUWiN). It is a readable, interesting
introduction to a range of issues, including: Meinrath’s take on the
congressional debate on network neutrality, the FCC’s failure to
investigate the Bush administration’s domestic spy program, as well as

Meinrath, S. (2005). Community Wireless Networking and Open Spectrum Usage: a Research Agenda to Support Progressive Policy Reform of the Public Airwaves. The Journal of Community Informatics. Volume 1, Issue 2. http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/233/191 Access to open spectrum, and upcoming regulatory action on the issue, is key to the future success of community wireless networks. This document addresses this subject. It comes out of first National (US) Summit for Community Wireless Networks in August 2004, and the work of wireless developers and policy experts.

Sandvig, Christian, David Young, and Sascha Meinrath (2004). Hidden Interfaces to "Ownerless" Networks. Presented to the 32nd Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy Washington, DC, USA – September 2004. www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/csandvig/research/Hidden_Interfaces.pdf This article is written by a group of academics and engineers on some of the technical and regulatory issues surrounding user-experimentation with wireless mesh networking and the resulting ownerless networks.