Dear Julian,

I'm copying Sepp, who covers p2p infrastructure developments for us as well,

what I have is here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology

see perhaps, http://p2pfoundation.net/Defining_True_P2P_Infrastructures

(and if you have time: http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Infrastructure and check the related efforts on open standards via http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Standards)

see in particular in that above tech section:


Projects we find worthty of support:

  1. Open Source Mesh Networking projects monitored by Open Source Mesh
  2. P2P and the Social Cloud. Rafael Pezzi: Part 1 and Part 2: programmatic statement on a truly open and non-proprietary internet infrastructure
  3. Various strategies to achieve Free Fiber to the home
  4. High Priority Free Software Projects: "The FSF high-priority projects list serves to foster the development of projects that are important for increasing the adoption and use of free software and free software operating systems."
  5. Most congruent with our value system is the technical team at Organic Design in New Zealand.
  6. If your Internet is filtered and you cannot access to given websites, you may find these tools at Sesawe useful.


Projects to decentralize/distribute the internet:

  1. BitCoin, a decentralized internet currency.
  2. Diaspora will hopefully be a social networking community where users can run their own federated “pods”, thus owning their personal data and directly controlling what is shared with who.
  3. The Dot-P2P Project, an alternative DNS hierarchy that resists censorship.
  4. GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services
  5. OpenPGP encryption is based on self-issued certificates which gain authority as a result of a web of trust expressed via user- maintained keyrings rather than a hierarchical certificate authority system that can be centrally compromised.
  6. MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "p2pfoundation.net" claiming to be Status.Net is a microblogging system that allows users to run their own Twitter-like site and federate selected streams with other systems.
  7. The Tahoe Least-Authority File System, a highly fault-tolerant, secure internet filesystem.
  8. The Tor Project, an anonymizing overlay network.
  9. Unhosted: "Unhosted is a project for strengthening free software against hosted software. With our protocol, a website is only source code. Dynamic data is encrypted and decentralised, to per-user storage nodes. This benefits free software, as well as scalability, robustness, and online privacy."
  10. YaCy is a search engine where many nodes share information to build a distributed index.

P2P Network Computing

  1. For the most fully distributed Peer to Peer Computer Networks at present, please check out Tribler ;Peerple ; Wipeer
  2. Research into more fully distributed P2P systems for the future: Chord, CX Project, Farsite, Globe Project, Oceanstore, Pastry
  3. Decentralized P2P software programs are monitored and indexed here; Flud maintains a list of Distributed Internet-based Backup Systemssuch as Tahoe


[edit] P2P Searching

  1. List of Distributed Search Engines; [8]


[edit] Virtual Worlds

  1. Peer to Peer Virtual Worlds: VastPark, Solipsis, Vast; see also: Multiverse


On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Julian Dibbell <julian.dibbell@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, Michel!

As you'll see from the exchange below, Scientific American has asked
me to write about efforts -- driven or not by what happened to
WikiLeaks recently -- to truly decentralize the Internet. I wrote to
Doug Rushkoff asking what he knew about specific projects; he wrote
back saying that you are the one to ask about these things. Can I? Is
there a page or something where you're cataloguing these initiatives?
Or can you send me a brief list?

I hope you are well.

Julian


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Douglas Rushkoff <rushkoff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: "Next Net" question
To: "julian@juliandibbell.com" <julian@juliandibbell.com>


Yeah tons. Michel Bauwens is trying to keep track of them. Do you know him?



On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Julian Dibbell <julian.dibbell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, Doug:
>
> Scientific American got in touch with me last month about doing a
> piece on decentralized-Internet initiatives in the post-Cablegate
> moment, and in looking for what kinds of things might be out there to
> cover I found your "Next Net" post for Shareable, which I found rather
> a thrilling call to arms. My question is: Other than what's in the
> comments section, did the response turn up any concrete technical
> projects you think I should know about?
>
> Julian
>
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