[ih] WEB5: AN EXTRA DECENTRALIZED WEB PLATFORM

[Miles Fidelman]

the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history wrote:
> *Building an extra decentralized web that puts you in control of your data
> and identity*
>
> The web democratized the exchange of information, but it's missing a key
> layer: identity. We struggle to secure personal data with hundreds of
> accounts and passwords we can’t remember. On the web today, identity and
> personal data have become the property of third parties.
>
> Web5 brings decentralized identity and data storage to your applications.
> It lets devs focus on creating delightful user experiences, while returning
> ownership of data and identity to individuals.
>
> [Web2] and [Web3] => [Web5]
>
> https://developer.tbd.website/projects/web5/
>
So maybe this we should just skip all the intermediate steps and go 
right to one big cloud of URLs, Processes, and Files.  "The Network is 
the Computer" and all that.

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Distributed, Replicated Files as the bottom layer - IPFS kind of meets 
the bill
- Add some kind of DCVS - Git, WebDAV, DIS, HLA, XMPP

Universal Messaging - Unicast, Group, Broadcast - IP, XMPP, NNTP, AQMP, 
Link16, take us in the right direction

Universal Real-Time Connectivity - DDS, SIP/H.323 for establishing 
real-time associations

Erlang-Style Actors, Mobile Agents

A local environment that looks like HyperCard (stacks of cards - each 
stack a namespace, each card a bundle of data & processes - i.e., files 
& actors) [Or Smalltalk, or OpenDoc, or Apollo Domain, or a Lisp Machine]
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Or... maybe we just all adopt Plan9, and move on to doing useful things 
with it.

Miles Fidelman

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