On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Lee Azzarello <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a federated telephony system...
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Nathan of Guardian <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > A truly free internet = a federated internet in my mind... Why do you > consider it a sign that something is broken? back in the p2p fad days, the distinction between federated and decentralized became important, and was characterized as (paraphrasing): - federated is distributed hierarchy with a single or few points of ownership and control. federated is focused more around inter-operability, resilience, availability, and robustness of managed services. - decentralization has no single point of ownership or control nor does it imply hierarchy of any sort, instead relying on the cooperation of independent peers. decentralized is focused more around peer trust boundaries, scale free growth, end-to-end anonymity and privacy. federated systems are working great! CALEA compliant, one stop shops for BULLRUN. what we need are fully decentralized systems that are even more usable, even more scalable, and even more end-to-end protected with hardware and software we can actually trust. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
