I'm personally rather hopeful that Yggdrasil, or something similar to it, could be used to provide connectivity in harder-to-reach places. I don't think it's a bad dream to want to localise networking more.
One project that comes to mind is the the OLPC project - they had a go at meshing their devices with 802.11s but, like most other routing protocols, it wouldn't scale up as far as it needs to.
Wireless meshing is something we are definitely interested in though. I am hopeful that with the iOS port that we may be able to experiment with true meshing over Multipeer Connectivity/AWDL (if Apple allow us to...) and there have also been efforts by the Toronto Mesh community to adopt and test Yggdrasil.
One project that comes to mind is the the OLPC project - they had a go at meshing their devices with 802.11s but, like most other routing protocols, it wouldn't scale up as far as it needs to.
Wireless meshing is something we are definitely interested in though. I am hopeful that with the iOS port that we may be able to experiment with true meshing over Multipeer Connectivity/AWDL (if Apple allow us to...) and there have also been efforts by the Toronto Mesh community to adopt and test Yggdrasil.