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