Cloud Storage: A New Implementation Style?

Hi All,

I'm working on a project that requires large volumes of video being
delivered.  I've considered the capabilities of RWW.io (Cloud Storage) and
pondered about a new style of implementation.

I've attached a PDF: and am seeking feedback (hopefully also,
collaboration).

I like the idea of building out this solution under my 'web civics' flag;
and felt the first step, was to check whether i'm talking about something
that people had already been planning to deploy - or is this something new?

Without the funds to consider going about this commercially; and beyond
that, feeling that perhaps to start a project like this on the same
grounds; nor, understanding whether or not it is an innovative concept of
RWW, etc.

Well,

I figured i'd post.  Sorry for the wrong email. I look forward to feedback.

Below is a TXT output (which looses some of the formatting).  I've attached
the PDF, and the Google Drive link is:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_-AWWDVv3V2dkRNc0xNSVRDTFk/view?usp=sharing
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*RWW: World Wide Web Network Services Infrastructure*
Decentralised Cloud Storage, Content Distribution, and Knowledge Economics
Overview
    Rich Media Distribution accounts for a significant portion of
Internet.  These systems transport rich media in a variety of formats,
encapsulated as media files or other formats, as to enable distribution
across the web.  In the SandVine report for the first half of 2014, The
Peak Period Traffic Composition of Internet use in North America shows
significant percentages of Real-Time Entertainment, File-sharing and other
activities both upstream and downstream accounting for Peak-Period internet
Use in the Region.  These statistics are then backed-up by the same report,
outlining the share of web-traffic accounted for by Bit-Torrent and an
array of popular Internet Media Services.
These statistics show the relatively high demand or use or Internet for
Media.
Web 2.0 furthered internet website technology to provide an array of
enhancements made possible by scripting and RDBMS Connectivity.  These
systems were first used for mainframe, workstation and local area
networking.  As Web 2.0 systems developed, these technologies were then
applied to create ‘web applications’ used on the World Wide Web.  In the
Late 1990’s, Tim Berners-Lee and others, started reinventing these systems.
This course produced the ‘Semantic Web’ concept. Incorporating a new type
of database methodology, embedded within the concept of Linked-Data.
Considerations surrounding the application of these technologies have been
examined for over a decade for an array of applications, including
cloud-storage for the social-web.  A recent PHD Thesis by Andrei Sambra,
under the direction of Tim Berners-Lee, examines data Ownership and
Interoperability for a Decentralised Social Semantic Web.  This paper
outlines considerations relating to Privacy, Access Control and
decentralised storage as is exampled by the works produced in relation to
the thesis rww.io.
Rww.io is an example of a linked-data platform.  The system is designed to
authenticate a user (person / machine) using an X.509v3 Certificate
(WebID-TLS) which in-turn authorises access to materials stored on that
server.
The Server itself is an open-source implementation, which can support a
multitude of users and applied business systems.  The server implementation
incorporates the use of SPARQL, JSON-LD, RDF and an array of read/write web
functions (DAV, AJAX, JSONP, CORS).
Existing Research and Development has very much focused on user-interaction
with these systems as a means to support decentralisation of user-data,
from traditional Web 2.0 application, user-experiences.  These new-forms of
‘cloud storage’ models support the development of applications whereby the
application provider does not store user-data, but rather references the
user-data-storage location.
The Era of Web 3.0 Technology has been contemplated by Jeff Sayre in his
paper “Web 3.0: Powering Startups to Become Smartups”.  As noted by Jeff in
this paper, the term “smart-ups” was originally coined by Kingsley Idehen.
Web 3.0 denotes the use of Semantic Web Technology; where structured data
is used within web-documents to make declarations of meaning for
information entered into web-documents, in such a way that the web itself
becomes a database.
The culmination of these concepts have traditionally been considered in
terms of the ‘social web’.  Indeed, Tim Berners-Lee’s Paper “Socially Aware
Cloud Storage” documents the concept of “social network silos” which when
combined with Read-Write Linked-Data created an established way of thinking
surrounding the use of Read-Write Web Cloud Storage Platforms, extending
the standards documentation to the creation of “Linked Data Platform” from
an initial standpoint of considerations surrounding the Social Web.

Content Distribution Services
    Content Distribution Services or “CDN’s” have traditionally involved a
syndicated system of servers and software, created to distribute content in
large volumes across the web to a plurality of users. The Basic Concept of
a CDN is that it transports web-resources from a point of origin, through a
distribution framework, that then enables end-users to access those
resources from a location that is local to that user.  This has the Network
Effect of distributing requests across a multitude of server-locations
whilst facilitating access to particular resources by particular users from
nodes within this distribution service, that are most effective for that
user to access.
A Simple example would be that if an Australian User utilised a resource
from an American Website, that resource may be forwarded by the CDN to an
Australian location, so that when the Australian User sought to use that
resource - the data-transfer between the Australian User and the resource
would be facilitated via national networks.

RWW / LDP - Innovation Summary
    The Principle concept is to apply RWW Cloud Server Technology for the
purpose of CDN Deployment.  This in-effect has the capacity to create a
virtualised ‘web-storage’ platform whereby authenticated users can store
data on the cloud, in a decentralised manner using Access Control whilst
optimising the Web for Content Services.
Background
    After many years working on Video On Demand Systems, a current project
required investigation into the delivery of a Hybrid TV Platform,
incorporating IPTV capabilities.  These types of systems have very high
throughput and data requirements.  To facilitate these technical
requirements infrastructure is deployed throughout the Internet Network, at
scale, often including to Local Nodes such as DSLAM Locations as to
facilitate high-throughput for connected subscribers incorporating QOS
capabilities in relation to the delivery of a Infrastructure Grade
Service.   These systems have in-turn required operators to build and
manage this sophisticated Infrastructure.
Proposal
    Internet Service Providers (“ISP” / “ISP’s”) have engaged these network
service providers in an array of ways, including through the provision of
Rack-Space, Power and Connectivity to CDN providers, who in-turn manage the
content services platform.  This business model often results in
difficulties due to the ISP Infrastructure Managers (ISP’s)  providing the
Infrastructure service to the CDN service provider, who in-turn manages the
maintenance requirements of the CDN Equipment.
I then considered that perhaps, rather than acquiring and deploying this
infrastructure solution for deployment into ISP Networking Infrastructure,
Perhaps it is possible to refactor the use-case around RWW Cloud Storage
Platforms as to provide this software platform to ISP’s who can then,
in-turn, internally manage the CDN Infrastructure.  Further considering
the  opportunity, i then realised that whilst the initial business case for
exploring this technical design / business opportunity was to lower the
effective cost for Media Service Providers (“MSP’s”) in deploying
infrastructure grade service - the methodology is not exclusively tied to
the service provision of any one particular ‘vendor’, but rather, a
cloud-services platform that is capable of virtualising the web from its
existing state of ‘silos’ to ‘smart storage’.
In one embodiment; the software embodiment is installed from an open-source
package.  This software allows a service-operator to prioritise the content
stored on the network subject to the network load relating to the usage of
assets over internet connected networks.  In this way, “Web 3.0” software
(including media files, as an example) can be cached on the network to the
local node based on usage, or other prioritisation factors managed by the
network provider.
FileSystem storage may include;
Personal Files: for example, a user who works on the web from home, may
utilises a specific exchange the majority of the time.  Therein, the
ability to store data at that exchange (rather than providing transit to an
alternative peer) may increase performance whilst lowering cost for that
users cloud storage Requirements.
IPTV; An IPTV network is defined as an Internet Video Service that
incorporates Quality of Service (QOS) Requirements, as to ensure the
network performance is appropriately managed; in a way, for example, that
ensures availability and managed buffering for usage of a qualified
service.  In this way, the services-platform may be provided by the ISP as
to support enhanced services in a manner that was otherwise either
unobtainable or more costly.
Economically, ISP’s often manage their own infrastructure.  It becomes
expensive to engage external providers to manage what is arguably a
practical requirement of ISP infrastructure.  Expense drivers include
network design, available co-location or rack-space (inclusive of power,
etc.) in any specific environment (ie: inclusive of telecommunications
exchanges) which may or may not have resources available to best cater for
all network opportunities, as driven by a customer base.
By offering an open-source system that is capable of providing Access
Control upon the Content Services Layer, rather than the equipment layer,
it may be possible to create an abstraction between tele housing data for
the purpose of network engineering and use-case fulfilment and the
ownership of the content tele housed within said environment.
The Web is a Peer-to-Peer based system.  Initial transit models over
Internet Protocol facilitated the ‘peer-to-peer’ networking capability via
mapping addresses, in-turn creating a carriage service, without
inter-mediatory storage.  As the Internet exponentially grew, utility
problems emerged through the lack of bandwidth between points (ie:
international carriage) as required for every request from one
source-point, to another; related, was the issue of centralised resourcing
and the ability for a system to facilitate access simultaneously to more
individual requests than any single computing device was capable of
servicing alone.
In the initial stages of developing solutions for this problem, systems
called ‘cache servers’ were implemented, which created rule-sets, allowing
content to be stored in a location closer to any requesting entity; which
in-turn reduced the requirement for accessing content from an original
source location.
As Web 2.0 solutions emerged, furthering online use of rich-media and
database driven web-systems, more advanced, yet privately managed systems
were further developed; these systems were called “Content Distribution
Networks” or ‘CDN’s’.
CDN’s changed the way websites were able to manage the distribution of
their content, with the interest of controlling use of that content within
their own systems or ‘web portals’ as a medium of intellectual property
management, offering enhancements to quality of service without the need to
deploy and manage hardware infrastructure throughout the region of use.
The other effect surrounding the business model of a CDN was that rather
than the ISP managing their own cache systems (as required prior to the
advent of CDN’s) which cost the ISP funds, in exchange for network
optimisation benefits; the CDN Businesses PAID the ISP’s to manage new,
more sophisticated means of managing this content networking issue on the
behalf of websites, rather than ISPs.
 CDN’s and related infrastructure are still fundamentally based upon the
use of centralised relational database systems.  Inbuilt into the design,
are factors relating to the architecture of these relational database
technology which are different to the traits of graph database technology;
across many levels, including that of security.
Within the sphere of RDF, RWW, TURTLE, WebID-TLS, and JSON-LD based
decentralised web-technologies, new paradigms have been developed where the
principle focus technically, has been formatted to consider economics and
the social-web.  Problematically, these infrastructure solutions, that have
much greater capacities to offer communities or individual entities a new
means to manage data-rights, have suffered from a lack of deployment
solutions, regardless of the benefits made available to developers should
these systems become more easily usable by a sufficiently resource critical
mass of users who in-turn are made capable of better controlling their own
data; even where their influence of control, is to provide constituents or
embodiments of their information uniformly or freely.
These technologies can make distinctions between a reference to a persons
data, and a contribution of a person or entity; or embodiment through
accumulative configuration and presentation, of a plurality of contributors
concepts; into a unique format, that may be its own embodiment, as distinct
from each and every constituent, without prejudice.
By adapting the before mentioned technologies, into a networking platform
made available to infrastructure operators (such as ISP’s and Data-centre
locations), the capacity to further virtualise ‘cloud storage’ has distinct
opportunities to provide remedy and/or opportunity, to a variety of
problems (on a variety of levels); including but not exclusive to, initial
platform frameworks required for the emerging ‘knowledge-economy’,
establishing capacities for such systems to develop, with discourse through
socio-economic frameworks, as a predicate to further application
innovation, utility and related economic growth / resourcing measures.
Economic factors are an important manifest function of human sociology, or
perhaps more succinctly - how the world works.  Web-Payments and
Credentials W3 Community Groups  are actively working on systems capable of
servicing economic solutions surrounding the application of these types of
‘cloud storage’ platforms, in the manner described by this paper.

Conclusion
    There is a meaningful opportunity to refactor the RWW Social-Web
Cloud-Storage Platforms into an open-source services platform that is
capable of applying the same techniques, for network services, in a manner
that does not simply service the needs of network providers but also -
end-users.  To do this, it would be best if a decentralised, cooperative
framework of collaborators could work together, with transparency.
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