ADP Update (POC WIP)

Hi All,

I've made some progress on 'Agent Discovery Protocol' (ADP) whilst still a
Work in Progress (WIP); here's a link to the Proof of Concept (POC) demo
app.

BACKGROUND: My Presentation at IETF:
https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/119/slides/slides-119-hotrfc-sessa-09-agent-discovery-protocol-00.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDH5eaIF_zc&t=2276s

UPDATE & DEMO:

https://webcivics.github.io/IPFS-ADP/
(FWIW: you can use sailingdigital.com to check if you'd prefer not to
produce your own DNS record, to see the output)

In this situation, I've used IPFS to store the file.  There's lots that can
be done to make it nicer.  but for now, it works well enough to illustrate
a few points.

1. Agent Types
- natural Person - this is intended to provide an anchor, which is in-part,
intended to be interoperable with WebID (or multiple WebIDs) and in-turn
also, enable the means to present a POD location (ie:
mypodprovider.tld/mypodaddress) - which might change!  theory being, if
they retain access to their domain, then address book apps, etc. can
rediscover any changes.  Another intended purpose of it, is to provide
bitcoin addresses (and related hash's) so that apps can create
functionality where people just share their own domain name; and the
address can be found via ADP.

NOTE: This is not intended to store private information.  The intended
goal, is to ensure that people can own a domain name; but then, provide
information about their WebID / POD (or however their 'mydata' or related
solution is made to work) address - where connections can be made, and the
permissive information shared between peers (on an agreed basis, etc.).
This is also intended to be made AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE.  Ideally, users
only need a domain name and means to add a DNS record - rather than
otherwise REQUIRING a hosting account.

- organisations - fairly straight-forward...

- AI agent - my thinking is that this is useful in particular for AI
generated Content, if it retains some information about where its from;
whether it be, text, image, etc.  this could in-turn create a means to
discover, for instance, what AI Agent a piece of content is from.

- Humanitarian Service: The point of this was to address internet shutdown
related issues.  So, rather than shutting the internet down entirely -
perhaps there's a means to ensure that at least critical online resources
remain accessible.

- Adult Content Website; point is - a means for websites to declare
themselves an 'adult website' in a way that then enables settings on local
machines to prevent access to those sites (ie: preventing children from
accessing adult sites or perhaps even being able to find them in
search-results).

2. Defining Properties (in RDF); this also requires some consideration
about ontology...

3. Web of Trust:  old records -
https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?search=%22web+of+trust%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=1


The notion of Web of Trust is that if peers (ie: different domain names)
declaratively state something about one-another (forming a graph) then
there's a means to improve assumptions.  This might be used, for instance,
by a series of institutional websites all denoting that a particular
humanitarian domain is in-fact a humanitarian (IHL) related domain name...

This part needs more work.  I'm still thinking about how it might better be
applied.  Earlier work considered the use of credentials, which is still
assumed to be part of what ADP should support - but maybe, 'web of trust'
related methods provides a decentralised alternative - there's various
implications, as noted, still thinking about it.

Generation & Implementation:
I like turtle.  I know, most platforms prefer JSON-LD or moreover JSON -
but, maybe that's making it more difficult to distinguish between -
ideologies?  idk.  For the most-part, serialization formats are
interchangable.  anyhow,

app generates the file, you then upload it to IPFS, get the CID generated
when uploading the file, then enter into the field provided.  The app then
generates the DNS records needed to be added (to DNS).

I found it worked after - less than a minute, although the update took a
little longer.

I'm particularly interested in feedback, particularly technical feedback -
I'm presently unsure about security related considerations in particular,
whilst also considerate of the importance of better defining the ontology
(indeed also, namespace for it)..

It would also be good to get some feedback about whether this is something
that the CG participants want to collaboratively pursue or not.  As has
been noted earlier, I think (suspect?) part of it probably needs to be done
also via IETF.  I'm still working on the ID (Internet Draft).

🙏🕊️

Timothy Charles Holborn.
Media Prophet | Web Civics | Trust Factory | Webizen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ubiquitous/