On 3 April 2014 22:57, Klaus Schleisiek <[email protected]> wrote:
> At long last, the ybti org-group has finalized the "vision paper", which we > committed ourselves to produce at the end of 30C3's #youbroketheinternet > workshop. (see txt attached.) > > Meanwhile, the name "youbroketheinternet" sticks and therefore, we are > referring > to the project as "ybti", which can be easily pronounced in German as well > as in > English. > > Below is ybti's vision aimed at addressing potential supporters and the > public > at large. Currently, we are trying to find more projects, who are willing > to > support the vision in order to give it more weight in the eyes of those, > who are > not able to judge on technical grounds. > > At present, we see ybti's mission in fostering a discourse amongst > FLOSS-projects that intend to reengineer the internet. It is our intention > to > define an API, which allows for secure message/data distribution > mechanisms as a > free and open alternative to internet's first generation RFCs. If this API > would > exist it can be used by independent projects to realize applications on > top of > it, of course. At the same time, this API would allow for a plurality of > independent transport mechanism implementations for the wide range of > existing > platforms. > Document looks good and very well written. The goals look ambitious, but I suppose these days you have to be ambitious to get some kind of attention. As someone that's spent time trying to build this kind of thing the time frame looks short, but I dont know how that would come across to the intended audience. Regarding building a more decentralized alternative to social network systems, I hope I can contribute there. I was curious about one point: "decentralized authentication mechanisms" Is there a sense of know exactly *what* we are trying to authenticate here? I'm not suggesting an amendment to the document, I'm just trying to understand better what this could mean. > > ~bit > > > > > -- > SocialSwarm mailing lists: https://socialswarm.net/en/participate/ > Websites: https://socialswarm.net/ https://wiki.socialswarm.net/ > Liquid Feedback: https://socialswarm.tracciabi.li/ > Digitalcourage, Bielefeld, Germany [email protected] >
