Autonomous Internet Road Map

Introduction

Our preliminary focus is on the Open Source Tri-Fecta, the combination of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS), Open Spectrum, and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), with an urgent collective commitment to focusing on the vital need to connect the three billion poorest of the poor as quickly as possible. Connectivity and Interoperability of machines and content, are the Prime Directives.

Google Group: Building a Distributed Decentralized Internet

Strategic Overview

Technical Terms of Reference

• Delay-Tolerant Networking

Technical Overview

The OSI Model

The Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model) is a product of the Open Systems Interconnection effort at the International Organization for Standardization. It is a way of sub-dividing a communications system into smaller parts called layers. A layer is a collection of similar functions that provide services to the layer above it and receives services from the layer below it. On each layer, an instance provides services to the instances at the layer above and requests service from the layer below.

OSI Model
	Data unit	Layer	Function
Host layers	Data	7. Application	Network process to application
		6. Presentation	Data representation, encryption and decryption, convert machine dependent data to machine independent data
		5. Session	Interhost communication
	Segments	4. Transport	End-to-end connections and reliability, flow control
Media layers	Packet	3. Network	Path determination and logical addressing
	Frame	2. Data Link	Physical addressing
	Bit	1. Physical	Media, signal and binary transmission

Some orthogonal aspects, such as management and security, involve every layer.

Autonomous Internet Models

(this section will detail multiple models for Autonomous Internet architectures)

Open Everything Overview

Below is a depiction of a simplified view of Open Everything at the strategic level. Our early focus is on the Open Source Tri-Fecta, the needed combination of Open Source Software, Open Spectrum, and Open Source Intelligence.