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: - *On the overall perspective of the P2P Foundation: What Digital Commoners Need To Do<http://p2pfoundation.net/What_Digital_Commoners_Need_To_Do>, a meditation on the strategic phases in the construction of a peer to peer world* Projects we find worthty of support: 1. Open Source Mesh Networking<http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Mesh_Networking>projects monitored by Open Source Mesh <http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Mesh> 2. P2P and the Social Cloud<http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=P2P_and_the_Social_Cloud&action=edit&redlink=1>. Rafael Pezzi: Part 1<http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p-and-the-social-cloud-the-emergence-of-peer-economic-systems-part-1/>and Part 2<http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p-and-the-social-cloud-the-emergence-of-peer-economic-systems-part-2/>: programmatic statement on a truly open and non-proprietary internet infrastructure 3. Various strategies to achieve Free Fiber to the home<http://free-fiber-to-the-home.blogspot.com/> 4. High Priority Free Software Projects<http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html>: "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 <http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/Home> in New Zealand. 6. If your Internet is filtered and you cannot access to given websites, you may find these tools at Sesawe <http://www.sesawe.net/> useful. Projects to decentralize/distribute the internet: 1. BitCoin<http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=BitCoin&action=edit&redlink=1>, a decentralized internet currency. 2. Diaspora<http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Diaspora&action=edit&redlink=1>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 <http://p2pfoundation.net/Dot-P2P_Project>, an alternative DNS hierarchy that resists censorship. 4. GNUnet <http://p2pfoundation.net/GNUnet> is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services 5. OpenPGP<http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=OpenPGP&action=edit&redlink=1>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. Status.Net<http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Status.Net&action=edit&redlink=1>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<http://p2pfoundation.net/Tahoe_Least-Authority_File_System>, a highly fault-tolerant, secure internet filesystem. 8. The Tor <http://p2pfoundation.net/Tor> Project, an anonymizing overlay network. 9. Unhosted <http://p2pfoundation.net/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 <http://p2pfoundation.net/YaCy> is a search engine where many nodes share information to build a distributed index. - not sure where this belongs, but some additional programs may be here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_AGPL_web_applications P2P Network Computing 1. For the most fully distributed Peer to Peer Computer Networks<http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_to_Peer_Computer_Networks>at present, please check out Tribler <http://www.tribler.org/> ;Peerple <http://www.peerple.net/> ; Wipeer <http://www.wipeer.com/> 2. Research into more fully distributed P2P systems for the future: Chord<http://p2pfoundation.net/Chord>, CX Project <http://p2pfoundation.net/CX_Project>, Farsite<http://p2pfoundation.net/Farsite>, Globe Project <http://p2pfoundation.net/Globe_Project>, Oceanstore<http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Oceanstore&action=edit&redlink=1>, Pastry <http://p2pfoundation.net/Pastry> 3. Decentralized P2P software programs are monitored and indexed here<http://www.dp2p.net/>; Flud <http://www.flud.org/> maintains a list of Distributed Internet-based Backup Systems <http://www.flud.org/wiki/SimilarSystems>such as Tahoe <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe> [edit<http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Category:Technology&action=edit§ion=15> ] P2P Searching 1. List of Distributed Search Engines <http://openp2p.com/pub/t/74>; [8]<http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Distributed_P2P_search_engine> [edit<http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Category:Technology&action=edit§ion=16> ] Virtual Worlds 1. Peer to Peer Virtual Worlds<http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_to_Peer_Virtual_Worlds>: VastPark <http://p2pfoundation.net/VastPark>, Solipsis<http://solipsis.netofpeers.net/wiki2/index.php/Main_Page>, Vast <http://vast.sourceforge.net/>; see also: Multiverse<http://p2pfoundation.net/Multiverse> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Julian Dibbell <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM Subject: Re: "Next Net" question To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]> wrote:

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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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