Re: How the father of the World Wide Web plans to reclaim it from Facebook and Google

On 16 August 2016 at 20:23, Kaliya IDwoman <kaliya-id@identitywoman.net>
wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 5:51 AM, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com
> > wrote:
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>> What is the business case for a service provider to adopt Solid?
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>
> 1) first off I'm super skeptical of any project that is
> university/research based it is notoriously difficult to get those to
> escape the lab as it where. Everyone has incentive to "publish" for their
> degrees/professorships - zero incentive to make a usable, market
> worthy/ready product (I don't just mean in a business way relative to
> market but adoptable in the marketplace of tools and software)
>
> 2) The Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium that I founded in 2010
> http://www.pde.cc has a whole range of companies that have been working
> on similar technology and ideas for well over 5 years. So it isn't new -
> the ideas around personal data stores/banks etc and putting people at the
> center of their own data lives go back at least to Johannes'  Ernst work
> (See the top of my twitter for a diagram he drew in 2005-6.  And the
> Augmented Social Network White Paper which itself and antecedents in other
> work. http://asn.planetwork.net
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> 3) Please show me what Tim has lead that has gotten to market besides HTML
> back in the day?
>

Skepticism is healthy.  But can sometimes be overdone.

Tim didnt just get html to market.  He also created the first browser
(editor).  He created HTTP.  He created.  He created the first web server.
And after that he created linked data.  And now Solid.  This is all really
one project known as the world wide web.

Fun fact: when presenting these things to the hypertext conference when it
was all working, the paper was rejected from the main conference and only
allowed "poster track"

See:

https://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/w3c10-HowItAllStarted/?n=16

Simple fact is that Tim thought about the web for 2 decades before
releasing it.  Almost no one got it then.  Solid is the conclusion of that
work, and almost no one gets it now.  My hope is that people will start to
appreciate it when they see it in action! :)


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>> Why would Google, Facebook or anyone that build's their business on user
>> data choose to let users take that away?
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> They don't have a choice because the European regulatory framework the
> General Data Protection Regulation that comes into force in 2018 is
> mandating it.
> You also have a whole group of companies working on building businesses
> around this premise and one finally finally got funding -
> https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/30/digi-me-bags-6-1m-to-
> put-users-in-the-driving-seat-for-sharing-personal-data/
> Meeco https://meeco.me/ from Australia is doing awesome work (Both there
> and in the UK) as is MyDex https://mydex.org/
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>> Who will offer users a comparable service to these silos that attracts
>> them away but adopts Solid and can still make enough money to survive
>> competing with the biggest tech companies in the world?
>>
>> The point is not whether or not the architecture is easy the point is
>> whether it has the potential to make anybody any money because if it
>> doesn't then I think you will have a hard time persuading people to use it,
>> no matter how well it scales.
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> We have to really get into the weeds of figuring how value flows in these
> networks to make it work for the parties involved and be sustainable in the
> long run.  It will take way more then "architecture".
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> If you all want to dive into some of the nitty gritty I invite you to the
> Internet Identity Workshop - http://www.internetidentityworkshop.org
>
> :) Kaliya
>
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>> On 15 August 2016 at 14:11, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 15 August 2016 at 14:08, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Solid isn't finished yet.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Solid is at version 0.6 rather than 1.0.
>>>
>>> But I dont really know what more can be added to it to get it to v1.0.
>>> Im using it on a daily basis and it works fine.  Some people are
>>> perfectionists I suppose :)
>>>
>>> In any case its IMHO light years ahead of where the rest of the web is,
>>> even if you only take small parts of it and use it.
>>>
>>> You can also argue that solid will never be finished, in the sense that,
>>> the web will never be "finished".
>>>
>>> Its definitely something that can be used today.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, 10:07 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> On 15 August 2016 at 11:50, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From the article: "The question is whether architecture will be
>>>>>> enough."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The answer is no.
>>>>>> We live in world where few ideas succeed without a strong business
>>>>>> case. The architecture is the easy part.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Architecture is deceptively difficult to get right.  The vast majority
>>>>> if systems start to fall over as they scale.  The web and REST are two
>>>>> architectures that buck that trend and just get stronger as they scale.
>>>>>
>>>>> Solid is the next evolution in that architectural trend, imho, because
>>>>> it simply embraces the points that made the web great, and extends it a
>>>>> little bit, while being 100% backwards compatible.  Right now, it's the
>>>>> only system that I know of, with this property, in fact, nothing else is
>>>>> close.  So this in itself, the ability to scale to billions of users, is a
>>>>> business case.  Quietly facebook adopted the social graph approach to the
>>>>> web, and web architectural principles with their graph protocol, and also
>>>>> an implementation of WebID.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think what's true is that few ideas succeed, because simply, we have
>>>>> a lot of ideas and a lot of competition.  Having a business can help, but
>>>>> the right architecture is the magic sauce to get through those scalability
>>>>> barriers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I personally think Solid is the business opportunity of a lifetime,
>>>>> perhaps even bigger than the first web.  Im certainly investing on that
>>>>> basis.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 14 August 2016 at 10:49, Timothy Holborn <
>>>>>> timothy.holborn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Anders,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm using this email to respond to both [1] in creds; in addition to
>>>>>>> the below, with some lateral considerations.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> See this video where Mr Gates and Mr Musk are discussing in China AI
>>>>>>> [2].
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I haven't fully considered the implications, whilst i've certainly
>>>>>>> been considering the issue; i have not fully considered it, and as modern
>>>>>>> systems become subject to government contracts as may be the case with
>>>>>>> enterprise solutions such as those vended by IBM [3], may significantly
>>>>>>> lower the cost for government / enterprise, in seeking to achieve very
>>>>>>> advanced outcomes - yet i'm unsure the full awareness of how these systems
>>>>>>> work, what potential exists for unintended outcomes when work by
>>>>>>> web-scientists[4][5] becomes repurposed without their explicit and full
>>>>>>> consideration of the original designers for any extended use of their
>>>>>>> works, what the underlying considerations are by those who are concerned
>>>>>>> [6][7] and how these systems may interact with more advanced HID as i've
>>>>>>> kinda tried to describe recently to an audience here [8] and has been
>>>>>>> further discussed otherwise [9] [10].
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm a little concerned about the under-resourcing that seems to
>>>>>>> plague Manu's / Dave's original vision (that included WebDHT) to the
>>>>>>> consultative approach that i believed had alot of merit in how it may
>>>>>>> interact with the works of RWW at the time (alongside WebID) which have al
>>>>>>> progressed, yet, not seemingly to a solution that i think is 'fit for
>>>>>>> purpose' in attending to the issues before us.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have considered the need for people to own their own biometric
>>>>>>> signatures.  I have considered the work by 'mico-project'[11] seems to be a
>>>>>>> good supporter of these future works, particularly given the manner in
>>>>>>> which these works support LDP and other related technologies...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But the future is still unknown, and what worries me most; is those
>>>>>>> who know most about A.I. may not be able to speak about it as a citizen or
>>>>>>> stakeholder in the manner defined by way of a magna carta, such as is the
>>>>>>> document that hangs on my wall when making such considerations more broadly
>>>>>>> in relation to my contributory work/s.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i understand this herein; contains an array of fragments; yet, am
>>>>>>> trying to format schema that leads others to the spot in which i'm
>>>>>>> processing broader ideas around what, where and how; progress may be
>>>>>>> accelerated and indeed adopted by those capable of pushing it forward.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I remember the github.com/Linkeddata team (in RWW years) wrote a
>>>>>>> bunch of things in GO, which is what the IPFS examples showcase, and
>>>>>>> without providing exhaustive links, i know Vint has been working in the
>>>>>>> field of inter-planetary systems [13], therein also understanding previous
>>>>>>> issues relating to JSON-LD support (as noted in [1] or [14] ), which
>>>>>>> in-turn may also relate to other statements made overtime about my view
>>>>>>> that some of the works incubated by credentials; but not subject to IG or
>>>>>>> potential WG support at present - may be better off being developed within
>>>>>>> the WebID community as an additional constituent of work that may work
>>>>>>> interoperable with WebID-TLS related systems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Too many Ideas!!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (perhaps some have merit...)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tim.H.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/
>>>>>>> 2016Aug/0045.html
>>>>>>> [2] https://youtu.be/TRpjhIhpuiU?t=16m26s
>>>>>>> [3] http://blog.softlayer.com/tag/watson
>>>>>>> [4] http://webscience.org/
>>>>>>> [5] https://twitter.com/WebCivics/status/492707794760392704
>>>>>>> [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV8EOQNYC-8
>>>>>>> [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_on_Artificial_
>>>>>>> Intelligence
>>>>>>> [8] (perhaps not the best reference, but has a bunch of ideas in it:
>>>>>>> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RzczQPfygLuowu-W
>>>>>>> PvaYyKQB0PsSF2COKldj1mjktTs/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>>>> [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTqF3w2yrZI
>>>>>>> [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x_VpAjim6g
>>>>>>> [11] http://www.mico-project.eu/technology/
>>>>>>> [12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMxDNuuAiQ
>>>>>>> [13] http://www.wired.com/2013/05/vint-cerf-interplanetary-internet/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [14] https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/issues/36
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 at 14:47 Anders Rundgren <
>>>>>>> anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2016-08-11 15:16, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>>>>>> > Really good article, mentions Solid and other technologies.
>>>>>>>> WebID is mentioned by the author in the comments too ...
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/ways-to-decentralize-the-web/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> One of the problems with the Web is that there is no easy way
>>>>>>>> letting a provider know where you come from (=where your Web resources
>>>>>>>> are).  This is one reason why OpenID rather created more centralization.
>>>>>>>> The same problem is in payments where the credit-card number is used to
>>>>>>>> find your bank through complex centralized registers.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Both of these use-cases can be addressed by having URLs + other
>>>>>>>> related data such as keys in something like a digital wallet which you
>>>>>>>> carry around.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is a snag though: Since each use-case needs special logic,
>>>>>>>> keys, attributes etc. it seems hard (probably impossible), coming up with a
>>>>>>>> generic Web-browser solution making such schemes rely on extending the
>>>>>>>> Web-browser through native-mode platform-specific code.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Although W3C officials do not even acknowledge the mere
>>>>>>>> existence(!) of such work, the progress on native extensions schemes has
>>>>>>>> actually been pretty good:
>>>>>>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2016Au
>>>>>>>> g/0005.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is approach to decentralization is BTW not (anymore) a
>>>>>>>> research project, it is fully testable in close to production-like settings
>>>>>>>> today:
>>>>>>>> https://test.webpki.org/webpay-merchant
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The native extensions also support a _decentralized_development_model_for_Web_technology_,
>>>>>>>> something which is clearly missing in world where a single browser vendor
>>>>>>>> has 80% of the mobile browser market!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Anders
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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