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Decentralized Communications Community Group

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.

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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.


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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2017-03-23 by Paulo Chainho. The following people supported its creation: Paulo Chainho, Iago Soto Mata, Markku Raitisoja, Joep Meindertsma, Anton Roman, Sebastian Göndör. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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