Every freedombox has some unique identifier or even a profile whitch
could be so " annonymous" as the user want,
it could be like a Vcard, avatar/profilepict , with public keys,
tags, information about the user what he "likes" or is "interested"
in. Remember it should be social !! ....;)
This Freedombox unique identifier could be a dedicated GnuPG key. In
fact,
* Each Freedombox could own several GnuPG key.
* Each Freedombox GnuPG key can have several UIDs, describing what
services
are available under this Freedombox name.
* This service UID would be signed by the GnuPG keys of its users.
* A Freedombox user has several GnuPG key, one per identity.
* An identity can use services from several different Freedomboxes.
* Signing a Freedombox service UID with one of her identity GnuPG key
advertises how it can be contacted (i.e has signed the
https://some.freedombox.org service GnuPG key UID, where her
webpages are
hosted)..
* Using the GnuPG key "keyserver" preference, users can define if this
identity is public (and so uses the sks keyservers pool), or part
of a
private community (and thus designate a private sks server).
This is a very rough idea, so there might be downsides or issues,
but it
sounds like a possible area where to dig.
sound very good to me
What about DHT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
Seems to be implemented in many applications
Apache Cassandra
BitTorrent DHT – based on Kademlia as provided by Khashmir[13]
CAN (Content Addressable Network)
Chord
Kademlia
Pastry
P-Grid
Tapestry
What i try to say is we dont need just another DNS, or another social
webserver for the exchange of
webbased information by pulling it via a cronjob from facebook or
twitter,
we need a ,secure , distribiuted ? signature mechanism and a realtime
routing protocol whitch gives us the option for a
peer to peer routing between the freedomboxes if we need or like to.
A Hybrid P2P/Infrastructure Platform for Personal and Social
Internet Services http://research.nokia.com/files/pimrc08-camera.pdf
greetings
Marc
P.S .Apple just annouced AirDrop
AirDrop allows you to wirelessly and simply transfer files between
nearby!! Macs,
running Lion, and actually does not require !!! users to be on the
same WiFi network.
http://9to5mac.com/2011/02/25/mac-os-x-lions-airdrop-in-action-tests-instructions-and-video/
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