Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications
Designing a human centric next generation internet
Vision and progress on the Interpeer Project
The Interpeer Project attempts to provide the technical underpinnings for a
human centric next generation internet.
As sensors and compute nodes are now (close to) ubiquitous, it follows that
there is no longer a static or traceable relationship between ownership of a
physical processing unit and the personal identifiable data it processes.
A future internet architecture must take this into account, whilst respecting
and protecting user's privacy and data protection concerns, also from a
regulatory point of view. At the same time,
sharing data in this proliferation of processing units also favours distributed
approaches over the web's decentralised architecture.
This session outlines the future the Interpeer Project envisions, and reports
on achieved outcomes to date.
The Web has was designed with sharing of textual information in mind, and has
by now outgrown this purpose. In the academic context in which it was
conceived, and considering the technical constraints of the time, it made sense
to design a centralised protocol for up- and downloading documents to a server
managed by an institution or company. The Web has long evolved away from this,
and added authentication, authorization and encryption as natural afterthoughts
to the original design.
Nowadays, we share more than documents. Our concept of sharing has
evolved (for better and worse) from only adding to the public domain to
selectively trusting groups or individuals with specific pieces of
information.
While services built on web protocols can and have modelled this
new concept, it remains difficult to do well. This and financial incentives
combined push developers to instead adopt half measures, whereby a central
instance - the webserver and its legal owners - act as intermediaries to the
process, weakening the sharing model to commercial, state or criminal
exploitation.
There are excellent organisations fighting to amend legislations to
close such loopholes. The Interpeer Project recognizes that aside from the legal
struggles, the practical consideration remains that it is much simpler for
developers to build centralised, vulnerable products than those safe by design.
It aims at making safe data sharing applications as easy or easier to build by
starting from the ground up, and embedding the security and synchronization
concepts for a highly distributed network directly into a new and open
protocol stack.
Empowering users in the context of this project means enabling them to do
everything they're currently used to and more, but safely and without the
strict need for centralised infrastructure.
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