[P2P-F] structured mapping of real p2p internet infrastructure

Giovanni Lostumbo giovanni.lostumbo at gmail.com
Mon Jan 10 02:12:17 CET 2011


Hi Matt,

I noticed Appleseed on there. Almost forgot about it. Thanks for the links!!

Giovanni

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Matt Cooperrider <
matt.cooperrider at collabforge.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Can't contribute to this project but I wanted to share a useful resource:
>
> http://wiki.umuse.org/Initial_Notes
>
> It's a backburner project of Phil Ashlock of OpenPlans:
>
> This is a forum to help facilitate and unify the discourse on how to evolve
> existing web technologies to deliver the promise of user-centric identity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_2.0>.
> As identity standards begin to coalesce we must consider the implications
> for existing systems and services. By attempting to implement identity
> standards as they evolve and by considering the potential they unleash we
> can better inform their standardization process. However, the focus here
> isn't simply about adapting technologies to enable identity
> interoperability, it's more about creating a collaborative environment to
> coordinate how these technologies should evolve within a user-centric
> environment.
>
> Lots of useful links to projects here. Good survey of the application layer
> in the space you are discussing.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>
>
>>> Giovanni Lostumbo <giovanni.lostumbo at gmail.com> Jan 04 05:26AM -0800 ^
>>>
>>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Freifunk
>>>
>>> http://www.masternewmedia.org/the-alternative-p2p-wireless-internet-network-the-netsukuku-idea/
>>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Netsukuku
>>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IEEE_802.11s
>>> also
>>> "http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/non-centralised-
>>> infrastructure/index.htm:
>>>
>>> " * YaCy is a search engine where many nodes share information to
>>> build a distributed index.
>>> * Status.Net is a microblogging system that allows users to run
>>> their own Twitter-like site and federate selected streams with other
>>> systems.
>>> * Tahoe-LAFS is a high-redundancy file system that allows many
>>> systems to contribute to an encrypted and distributed storage system
>>> which nonetheless remains readable only to the owner of the files and
>>> not to the owner of the storage
>>> ....
>>> * 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.
>>> * 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.
>>> * There is discussion and prototyping of a P2P DNS in progress,
>>> without a root authority but rather with federated authority...
>>>
>>> ... * Various federated identity approaches already exist for
>>> different use-cases, using mechanisms like OAuth and SAML.
>>> * Various experiments in using P2PTV video streaming technology
>>> exist, where the video stream is sourced from nearby users rather than
>>> always from a central provider.
>>> * And of course there are many P2P file distribution systems, as
>>> well as the GNUNet framework project.."
>>>
>>> http://www.stanford.edu/~allison/saito.html<http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eallison/saito.html>
>>> http://www.media-art-online.org/iwat/
>>>
>>> http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Saito:Kenji.html<http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Saito:Kenji.html>
>>> http://www.watsystems.net/watsystems-translation/english.html
>>> https://twitter.com/jukux
>>> http://www.accianco.jp/
>>> http://www2.media-art-online.org/~ks91/gsap2009f-ks91.pdf<http://www2.media-art-online.org/%7Eks91/gsap2009f-ks91.pdf>
>>> http://www2.media-art-online.org/~ks91/gsap2009f-ks91-doc.pdf<http://www2.media-art-online.org/%7Eks91/gsap2009f-ks91-doc.pdf>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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