Principles of a Decentralized Web

Re:Principles of a Decentralized Web by jessaustin on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @08:26PM (#10188974)

If the web is to be decentralized in the same way that the internet is decentralized, it will be much better if it's never "designed" at all. If your app wants to talk to my host, cool. If it doesn't, that's cool too.

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Re:Principles of a Decentralized Web by draaglom on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @08:35PM (#10188999)

But you still need a protocol for the app and the host to talk to each other - and that needs designing.

And you need a way for the app to find the host; that needs to be designed too.

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Re:Principles of a Decentralized Web by bbcbasic on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @08:57PM (#10189080)

Namecoin & TOR?

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Re:Principles of a Decentralized Web by viraptor on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:05PM (#10189100)

So you agree in a thread which started from "one Harvard/MIT person doesn't get to design it" by listing two technologies:

- one coming from bitcoin which was supposedly mostly designed by one anonymous person

- one designed in US government sponsored project for use by intelligence agencies and later improved by DARPA

What's the point you're trying to make?

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Re:Principles of a Decentralized Web by bbcbasic on Friday September 11, 2015 @02:58AM (#10202340)

That you can pick a couple of technologies such as these and use them now, but in the spirit of "If your app wants to talk to my host, cool. If it doesn't, that's cool too."

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