Dear Julian, <br><br>I'm copying Sepp, who covers p2p infrastructure developments for us as well,<br><br>what I have is here at <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology">http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology</a><br>
<br>see perhaps, <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Defining_True_P2P_Infrastructures">http://p2pfoundation.net/Defining_True_P2P_Infrastructures</a><br><br>(and if you have time: <a href="http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Infrastructure">http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Infrastructure</a> and check the related efforts on open standards via <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Standards">http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Standards</a>)<br>
<br>see in particular in that above tech section:<br><br><ul><li> <b>On the overall perspective of the P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/What_Digital_Commoners_Need_To_Do" title="What Digital Commoners Need To Do">What Digital Commoners Need To
Do</a>, a meditation on the strategic phases in the construction of a
peer to peer world</b>
</li></ul>
<p><br>
</p><p>Projects we find worthty of support:
</p>
<ol><li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Mesh_Networking" title="Open Source Mesh Networking">Open Source Mesh Networking</a>
projects monitored by <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Mesh" title="Open Source
Mesh">Open Source Mesh</a>
</li><li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=P2P_and_the_Social_Cloud&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="P2P and the Social Cloud (page does not exist)">P2P
and the Social Cloud</a>. Rafael Pezzi: <a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p-and-the-social-cloud-the-emergence-of-peer-economic-systems-part-1/" class="external text" title="http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p-and-the-social-cloud-the-emergence-of-peer-economic-systems-part-1/">Part
1</a> and <a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p-and-the-social-cloud-the-emergence-of-peer-economic-systems-part-2/" class="external text" title="http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p-and-the-social-cloud-the-emergence-of-peer-economic-systems-part-2/">Part
2</a>: programmatic statement on a truly open and non-proprietary
internet infrastructure
</li><li>Various strategies to achieve <a href="http://free-fiber-to-the-home.blogspot.com/" class="external text" title="http://free-fiber-to-the-home.blogspot.com/">Free Fiber to the
home</a>
</li><li><a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html" class="external text" title="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html">High
Priority Free Software Projects</a>: "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."
</li><li>Most congruent with our value system is the technical team at <a href="http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/Home" class="external text" title="http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/Home">Organic Design</a> in New
Zealand.
</li><li>If your Internet is filtered and you cannot access to given
websites, you may find these tools at <a href="http://www.sesawe.net/" class="external text" title="http://www.sesawe.net/">Sesawe</a> useful.
</li></ol>
<p><br>
Projects to decentralize/distribute the internet:
</p>
<ol><li> <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=BitCoin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BitCoin (page does not exist)">BitCoin</a>, a
decentralized internet currency.
</li><li> <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Diaspora&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diaspora (page does not exist)">Diaspora</a> 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.
</li><li> The <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Dot-P2P_Project" title="Dot-P2P Project">Dot-P2P Project</a>, an alternative DNS
hierarchy that resists censorship.
</li><li> <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/GNUnet" title="GNUnet">GNUnet</a>
is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any
centralized or otherwise trusted services
</li><li> <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=OpenPGP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OpenPGP (page does not exist)">OpenPGP</a>
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.
</li><li> <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Status.Net&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Status.Net (page does not exist)"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "p2pfoundation.net" claiming to be</b></font> Status.Net</a> is a
microblogging system that allows users to run their own Twitter-like
site and federate selected streams with other systems.
</li><li> The <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Tahoe_Least-Authority_File_System" title="Tahoe Least-Authority File System">Tahoe Least-Authority File
System</a>, a highly fault-tolerant, secure internet filesystem.
</li><li> The <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Tor" title="Tor">Tor</a>
Project, an anonymizing overlay network.
</li><li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Unhosted" title="Unhosted">Unhosted</a>:
"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."
</li><li> <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/YaCy" title="YaCy">YaCy</a>
is a search engine where many nodes share information to build a
distributed index.
</li></ol>
<ul><li> not sure where this belongs, but some additional programs may
be here: <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_AGPL_web_applications" class="external free" title="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_AGPL_web_applications">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_AGPL_web_applications</a></li>
</ul><br><h2><span class="mw-headline">P2P Network Computing</span></h2>
<ol><li>For the most fully distributed <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_to_Peer_Computer_Networks" title="Peer to Peer Computer Networks">Peer to Peer Computer Networks</a>
at present, please check out <a href="http://www.tribler.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.tribler.org">Tribler</a>�;<a href="http://www.peerple.net/" class="external text" title="http://www.peerple.net">Peerple</a>�; <a href="http://www.wipeer.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.wipeer.com">Wipeer</a>
</li><li>Research into more fully distributed P2P systems for the
future: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Chord" title="Chord">Chord</a>,
<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/CX_Project" title="CX Project">CX
Project</a>, <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Farsite" title="Farsite">Farsite</a>,
<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Globe_Project" title="Globe Project">Globe
Project</a>, <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Oceanstore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oceanstore (page does not exist)">Oceanstore</a>, <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Pastry" title="Pastry">Pastry</a>
</li><li>Decentralized P2P software programs are monitored and indexed <a href="http://www.dp2p.net/" class="external text" title="http://www.dp2p.net/">here</a>; <a href="http://www.flud.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.flud.org">Flud</a> maintains a
list of <a href="http://www.flud.org/wiki/SimilarSystems" class="external text" title="http://www.flud.org/wiki/SimilarSystems">Distributed
Internet-based Backup Systems</a>such as <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe" class="external text" title="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe">Tahoe</a>
</li></ol>
<p><br>
</p>
<a name="P2P_Searching" id="P2P_Searching"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Category:Technology&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: P2P Searching">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">P2P Searching</span></h2>
<ol><li><a href="http://openp2p.com/pub/t/74" class="external text" title="http://openp2p.com/pub/t/74">List of Distributed Search Engines</a>;
<a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Distributed_P2P_search_engine" class="external autonumber" title="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Distributed_P2P_search_engine">[8]</a>
</li></ol>
<p><br>
</p>
<a name="Virtual_Worlds" id="Virtual_Worlds"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology?title=Category:Technology&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Virtual Worlds">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Virtual Worlds</span></h2>
<ol><li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_to_Peer_Virtual_Worlds" title="Peer to Peer Virtual Worlds">Peer to Peer Virtual Worlds</a>: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/VastPark" title="VastPark">VastPark</a>, <a href="http://solipsis.netofpeers.net/wiki2/index.php/Main_Page" class="external text" title="http://solipsis.netofpeers.net/wiki2/index.php/Main_Page">Solipsis</a>,
<a href="http://vast.sourceforge.net/" class="external text" title="http://vast.sourceforge.net/">Vast</a>; see also: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Multiverse" title="Multiverse">Multiverse</a>
</li></ol><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Julian Dibbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:julian.dibbell@gmail.com">julian.dibbell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello, Michel!<br>
<br>
As you'll see from the exchange below, Scientific American has asked<br>
me to write about efforts -- driven or not by what happened to<br>
WikiLeaks recently -- to truly decentralize the Internet. I wrote to<br>
Doug Rushkoff asking what he knew about specific projects; he wrote<br>
back saying that you are the one to ask about these things. Can I? Is<br>
there a page or something where you're cataloguing these initiatives?<br>
Or can you send me a brief list?<br>
<br>
I hope you are well.<br>
<br>
Julian<br>
<br>
<br>
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: Douglas Rushkoff <<a href="mailto:rushkoff@gmail.com">rushkoff@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM<br>
Subject: Re: "Next Net" question<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:julian@juliandibbell.com">julian@juliandibbell.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:julian@juliandibbell.com">julian@juliandibbell.com</a>><br>
<br>
<br>
Yeah tons. Michel Bauwens is trying to keep track of them. Do you know him?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Julian Dibbell <<a href="mailto:julian.dibbell@gmail.com">julian.dibbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hey, Doug:<br>
><br>
> Scientific American got in touch with me last month about doing a<br>
> piece on decentralized-Internet initiatives in the post-Cablegate<br>
> moment, and in looking for what kinds of things might be out there to<br>
> cover I found your "Next Net" post for Shareable, which I found rather<br>
> a thrilling call to arms. My question is: Other than what's in the<br>
> comments section, did the response turn up any concrete technical<br>
> projects you think I should know about?<br>
><br>
> Julian<br>
><br>
> --<br>
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