Proposed Group: Decentralized Communications Community Group
The Decentralized Communications Community Group has been proposed by Paulo Chainho:
The mission of this group is to specify and build a reference implementation of Decentralized Communications. Decentralized Communications enables natively inter-operable communication services that are able to trustfully use peer to peer connections without having to use central authorities or services. Decentralized Comms are inherently inter-operable without using standard protocols by using the Protocol on-the-fly concept, where the most appropriate protocol stack to be used, is selected and instantiated at run-time.
You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.
Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.
If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org
Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
Hi Paulo, some of the goals stated for this community group sound very similar to the current Social Web Working Group (https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg) and in particular the Social Web Incubator Community Group (https://www.w3.org/community/swicg/) you may want to join that instead of starting a new group as there’s already a lot of folks there interested in a variety of approaches to solving decentralized communications. Also stop by the #social IRC channel on irc.w3.org and say hi.