Re: The case for modularizing ILP

Hi Melvin,

The timing is interesting :)

There is a lot of refactoring going on at the moment to make implementing
ILP on existing ledgers (using the reference source code) easier and
possible through a kind of "plug-in" system.

Also, the website will be relaunching this week (for a sneak preview see
the v2 branch on github) with a LOT more developer resources. Our focus for
the London workshop on 6 July is very slanted toward developing with ILP
(as opposed to purely development of core ILP components) and we've set
aside the whole afternoon for hacking projects together that use or extend
ILP.

I hope you can join us in London on 6 July (interledger.org/workshop)

What I think you'll find most interesting is the awesome work that Stefan
and Evan have been doing in organising the specs into an RFC-style set at
http://github.com/interledger/rfcs (WIP so please take as such)

I did a presentation at WWWConf a few weeks ago which builds on the
architecture concepts you'll see there and explains the bridge from the
work being done in the W3C Web Payments WG and ILP (and how we are
architecting ILP to get the Internet of Value by creating direct analogies
with the Internet itself).

https://www.w3.org/2016/Talks/future-payments-201604.pdf

Adrian

On 25 May 2016 at 10:28, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

> ILP is a great concept, and I was wondering if we could think about
> breaking it down into self contained modules.
>
> This seems to bet the way some folks are going.
>
> Here is the kind of idea I posted recently:
>
> Ledger
> Block chain -> Ledger
> Central Mint -> Ledger
> Trading -> Testnet3 -> Ledger
> Derivatives -> Trading -> Bitcoin -> Ledger
> Media player -> Block Chain -> Ledger
> Search -> Media Player -> Bitcoin -> Ledger
> DAO -> Smart Contracts -> Block Chain -> Ledger
> Equities -> DAO -> Ledger
> Crowd Funding -> Equities -> DAO -> Ledger
> Bounties -> Ledger
> Github -> Bounties -> Ledger
>
> I'll be implementing this kind of things hopefully over time via quantum
> payments
>
> Here's also an example of bedrock:
>
> https://github.com/digitalbazaar/bedrock
>
> I know that ripple labs impl. are to an extent modularized but I wonder if
> we could somehow formalize this a bit more.
>
> What would be the core componens of ILP?
>
> With Ledger as the core unit common to most systems.  Since I think we're
> almost all building via nodejs / npm I wonder if it would be of value to
> think about a package manager type thing also.
>
> Im hopefully going to create this over time, probably on a 1-2 year time
> frame, hopefully more in the 1 year than 2.  Would love to hear thoughts ...
>