Kendal Model Internet Club

The Kendal Model Internet is a secure internet within the internet, designed for a small community to experiment with.

It's a shared space with little privacy and with few internal protections, because we trust each other to be open and reasonable.

It's not a physical network, though most of it is located in Kendal.

Expect hacking, random and experimental file formats and services, perhaps some art. There are Raspberry Pis involved.

But you don't have to be technical to be part of it. You can just use your phone.

Why "model internet"?

A model internet is a small internet, like a model railway, and just as a model railway doesn't need to worry about politics or funding, or passengers, people building a model Internet don't need to worry about difficult issues like scale and security.

A model internet is also an ideal internet, like a model village. It's a place to envisage new ways of using our connectivity, which might even one day be introduced to the wider world.

The name is inspired by a group in Philadelphia who meet on occasion to build a (physical) network.

Philadelphia Model Internet Club

What services are provided?

Like the greater Internet, a Model Internet is just a bunch of computers networked together. Services come and go according to the whims of community members. Here's a list of some things that may be up today:

http://chemrey.k/ is a web server on a Raspberry Pi.

One day there may be a service that keeps track of things that are happening, and where they are. Currently there is a single hub which routes traffic between all clients.

How do I get access?

Get hold of a Wireguard client. Then find me and ask.

Wireguard for Android

Wireguard for Apple

Other platforms

If you want to build a service, then you'll need to tweak the configuration to provide a `PersistentKeepalive`, so that the hub can always reach you.

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