Internet Zero

= open standards using protocol for linking smart objects, i.e. I0 is intended for interdevice internetworking

URL = http://cba.mit.edu/projects/I0/

Description

Frank Coluccio [1]:

"* Giving everyday objects the ability to connect to a data network would have a range of benefits: making it easier for homeowners to configure their lights and switches, reducing the cost of complexity of building construction, assisting with home health care. Many alternative standards currently compete to do just that – a situation reminiscent of the early days of the Internet, when computers and networks came in multiple incompatibly types.

• To eliminate this technological Tower of Babel, the data protocol that is at the heart of the Internet can be adopted to represent information in whatever form it takes: pulsed eclectically, flashed optically, clicked acoustically, broadcast electromagnetically or printed mechanically.

• Using this Internet-0 encoding, the original idea of linking computer networks into a seamless whole – the Inter in "Internet" can be extended to networks of all types of devices, a concept know as interdevice internetworking.

• The seventh and final attribute of I0 is the use of open standards. The desirability of open standards should not need saying, but it does. Many of the competing standards for connecting devices are proprietary. The recurring lesson of the computer industry has been that proprietary businesses should be built on top of, rather than in conflict with, open standards."

(http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001286.html)

Example

Hyperhabitat, at http://www.hyperhabitat.net