For the past two years, a grassroots effort has been under way to garner support for folks seeking to develop RTN in their local regions. An RTN covers not only as wide geographic area, but may also encompass many stakeholders, communications systems, bureaucratic tangles, and varying depths of understanding of the subject; all can be hurdles and challenges.
Anyone who has developed an RTN can cite their own particular points of pain, but there are a number of these challenges that have been fairly universal to each network developed. Read more here (678kb PDF)