[P2P-F] "Next Net" question

Fri Jan 14 08:16:56 CET 2011

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&section=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&section=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 <julian.dibbell at 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 at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM
> Subject: Re: "Next Net" question
> To: "julian at juliandibbell.com" <julian at 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 at 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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