NextNet
"NextNet" is an umbrella term used to refer to a variety of activities aimed at building next-generation distributed infrastructure.
Vision
<draft for a declaration of interdependence and a possible future that inspires us>
Values and Principles
<broad statement about the core values and principles that unite us>
Proposed: Mondo.net's Ten Principles for an Autonomous Internet
Stakeholders
<people projects and organizations working on realizing aspects of the above vision>
Organizations
- The Foundation for P2P Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives
- Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/
- Future Forward Institute http://futureforwardinstitute.com/
- New America Foundation http://newamerica.net/
- Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/
- Brave New Software http://www.bravenewsoftware.org/
- Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/
- Commons Strategies Group http://www.commonsstrategies.org/
- World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/
- Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium http://personaldataecosystem.org/
- FreedomBox Foundation http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
- The New Economics Foundation http://www.neweconomics.org/
- The Free Network Movement http://www.freenetworkmovement.org
Academia
Program on Liberation Technology (Stanford) http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/
Projects
- The GNU Project http://www.gnu.org/
- FreedomBox Project http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
- Open Source Ecology http://openfarmtech.org.nyud.net/wiki/Main_Page
- Appropedia http://appropedia.org/
- VillageTelco http://www.villagetelco.org/
- The Serval Project http://www.servalproject.org/
- Tor Project https://www.torproject.org/
People / Blogs
- Technology Liberation Front - http://techliberation.com/
- The COOK Report on Internet Protocol - http://www.cookreport.com/
- Shareable http://shareable.net/
- On The Commons http://onthecommons.org/
- Yes! Magazine http://www.yesmagazine.org/
- Holochain and Holo
Usage
The term came into use when Douglas Rushkoff posted:
http://shareable.net/blog/the-next-net
There is a twitter hashtag search here:
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23NextNet
Architecture
A minimal-requirements proof-of-concept can be seen in a diagram here:
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfxhxcx8_67c87nc9hp
Mark Pesce's Plexus p2p distributed social network architecture: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-we-need-a-wikileaks-for-social-media-marke-pesce-on-the-launching-of-the-plexus-project/2010/08/08 --Poor Richard 06:35, 2 April 2011 (UTC)