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Autonomous Internet Road Map. Preliminary Focus Our preliminary focus is on the Open Source Tri-Fecta, the combination of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS), Open Spectrum, and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), with an urgent collective commitment to focusing on the vital need to connect the three billion poorest of the poor as quickly as possible. Interoperable Connectivity of people, things, and ideas, are the Prime Directive. Strategic Phasing starts with connectivity, moves toward virtual networks and regional decision-support centres, and culminates in all humans connected to all information--especially "true cost" information--so as to achieve Panarchy--informed self-governance at all levels on all issues. Discussion Forums Our primary technical discussion is fireworks taking place at the Google Group on Distributed Decentralized Intelligence. The primary public discussion should take place at the Autonomous Internet Facebook Page.

P2P Wiki Protocol Open Everything Overview Strategic Approaches Philosophical Framework. Freenetworkmovement. TECHNOLOGY | Building a Distributed Decentralized Internet. Programmatic Statement. About This page shall become the draft of a programmatic statement for the creation of a world-wide user-controlled network based on a distributed architecture. The goal is a statement which can outline the benefits of distributed (communications) systems, increase awareness and co-operation between related projects and serve as a guideline on the development and implementation on distributed systems. ...producing some kind of summary programmatic statement, like the Franklin Street Statement, that determines exactly what are the minimum requirements to be recognized as truly distributed infrastructure, to avoid ulterior perversions like Meraki and a clear visual mapping that lets everyone see what is being done, what the current preferred leverage points are, what needs to be done, and how it all fits together.

Since I compiled the Project Starfish Concept and came into contact with the P2P Foundation, it was considered appropriate for me to start this task. Ideas/Mission Resources Goals. Four Design Principles for True P2P Networks. Excerpted from a mini-essay by Mark Pesce URL = Design Principle One: Distribute Everything The recording industry used the courts to shut down Napster because they could. Napster had a single throat they could get their legal arms around, choking the life out of it. In a display of natural selection that would have brought a tear to Alfred Russel Wallace’s eye, the selection pressure applied by the recording industry only led to the creation of Gnutella, which, through its inherently distributed architecture, became essentially impossible to eradicate. The Day of the Darknet had begun. Break everything up. This is an extension of the essential UNIX idea of simple programs which can be piped together to do useful things.

Design Principle Two: Transport Independence The inundation of Brisbane and its surrounding suburbs brought a sudden death to all of its networks: mobile, wired, optic. There is another way. Defining True P2P Infrastructures. Proposed by Michel Bauwens: What is a p2p infrastructure: 1) A P2P communications and cooperation infrastructure is a technological and social infrastructure which allows any individual to voluntarily aggregate with others for purposes of communication or the creation of common value 2 )A P2P technological infrastructure allows any agent to initiate actions from any point within the network, on the basis of equality of communication (network neutrality) and without any censorship impeding free speech and the freedom of association and cooperation.

It is a distributed infrastructure in which elements of decentralisation and centralisation can only serve the efficiency of the network, and not issues of control or profit. 3) A P2P ownership infrastructure is preferentially owned by the users and producers of value over the network. 4) A P2P governance infrastructure is based on the full rights by communities and participating individuals to govern their own infrastructures and actiivities. What Digital Commoners Need To Do. The following is a meditation on the strategic phases in the construction of a peer to peer world By Michel Bauwens, originally published at What have we been doing in the last few years, and what should we be doing next?

Here is a list of major undertakings, some well under way, some barely begun. All need to be done, are interdependent on each other, but need to be done ‘at the same time’, though there is a certain maturation effect which may need to take place to move from one phase or priority to another. . * use the existing infrastructures for immaterial exchange for personal and social autonomy We started by creating an infrastructure that allowed for peer to peer communication. The creation of this infrastructure was a combination of efforts of civil society forces, governments and public funding, and private R&D and commercial deployments. Category:P2P Infrastructure.

1. Geert Lovink [1] "Instead of further going down the corporate lane of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook, I propose to go back to the original architecture of Internet as public infrastructure with decentralized nodes. It may be romantic to insist on the distributed nature of networks but it is a necessary political demand. Net criticism is a toothless project without a utopian dimension. Even if internet itself had a military origin in the Cold War, and is now dominated by equally destructive force of greedy venture capitalists, backed up by libertarian gurus.

Let’s rethink the public sphere: another internet is possible! " There are four main forces arrayed against a future network of free and open data [2]. Content providers want to insure that their every product is not only the only thing you are allowed access to, but that you only access it in ways that insure that you pay for the privilege. What Can We Do? Michel Bauwens: 1. 2. 3. Basic Introductory Resources See also: What projects and initiatives are underway to build wireless ad-hoc mesh networks.

What true P2P networking projects exist or are in development, which may spring into action if the Internet is ever unacceptably co-opted or controlled. Questions | the connective | seeds for a grassroots, citizen-owned internet. What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet. 16+ Projects & Initiatives Building Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks. Emergent by design. The Evolution Will Be Socialized. From the actions of the Egyptian government to the policies of Facebook, the monopolies of central banks to the corporatization of the Internet, we are witnessing the potential of a peer-to-peer networking become overshadowed by the hierarchies of the status quo.

It’s time for us to gather and see what is still possible on the net, and what, if anything, can be built to replace it. I have had a vague misgiving about the direction the net’s been going for, well, maybe 15 years. But until recently, it was more like the feeling when another Starbucks opens on the block, a Wal-Mart moves into town, or a bank forecloses unnecessarily on that cool local bookstore to make room for another bank.

Lately, however, what’s wrong with the net has become quite crystalized for me. It started with the corporate-government banishment of Wikileaks last year, and reached a peak with Egypt shutting off its networks to stave off revolution. I received literally thousands of emails in response.