- From: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 15:32:42 +0100
- To: "'Mark Nottingham'" <mnot@mnot.net>, "'Melvin Carvalho'" <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: "'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "'TAG List'" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 8 Jan 2016 at 04:09, Mark Nottingham wrote: > [ I remember seeing that article somewhere other than the Guardian quite a few months ago, > but forget where; anyone? ] Probably here: http://bit.ly/1SGoVTq > Personally, I'm very interested, but the Web as currently designed and implemented heavily > encourages centralisation, and changing it is likely harder than just starting something new. > > Some related thoughts here: > https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/08/18/distributed_http > Cheers, > > >> On 8 Jan 2016, at 11:55 am, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 5 January 2016 at 20:51, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-faceb >> ook- instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web >> >> This is a really interesting piece, thanks for sharing. >> >> The web does seem to have become more centralized in the last few >> years. I dont know how much of this is architectural, and how much >> behavioral. >> >> The architectural foundations of the web as a cross origin document (and data) space, are > I think, quite strong, leading to a good degree of decentralization. I dont know why the > web may be becoming more centralized, I once heard someone say "no matter how > decentralized you design a system, centralization creeps in through the back door". >> >> My personal preference would be to see a healthy centralized and healthy decentralized > element of the web competing with each other and offering greater user choice. But we > dont seem to live in that world, right now, at least. >> >> One factor, imho, is that there are probably orders of magnitude more people working on > centralized solutions, than on decentralized. Also decentralized solutions are fragmented, > due to design decisions that get in the way of interop (tho interop is hard at the best of > times). >> >> Im not sure what the TAG can do about this, or even how many on the TAG list still are > interested in a decentralized web (tho I know TIm is). One thing that may be valuable is > guidelines to developers building decentralized solutions on how to prevent fragmentation, > and how to encourage interop. It's a difficult problem to talk about, let alone to solve! >> >> >> >> ht >> -- >> Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh >> 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 >> Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk >> URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ >> [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] >> >
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