Hi, have you ever heard about a thing that is changing forever"INTERNET"!!!!,yes the internet is changing for ever by Prof.Tim Berners Lee,Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.
What’s happening now?
The success of the Solid project has led to some new exciting developments to help it gain broad worldwide adoption.
Inrupt
We are pleased to note that a new start-up, inrupt, Inc, will be putting its own effort into the Solid open source technology and the Solid movement.
Inrupt is building a commercial ecosystem to fuel Solid’s success and protect the integrity of the next phase of the web. Its mission is to restore rightful ownership of data back to every web user and unleash a new wave of innovation - for developers, for business, for everyone.
Read Tim's open letter to the community about Solid and Inrupt.
Solid Community Site:
There you will find regular community updates,
a wealth of developer resources and documentation,
and general information about how Solid works.
a wealth of developer resources and documentation,
and general information about how Solid works.
Lets have a look what tim
says about there future
internet!!!
he outlined the design issues of what later became
the Solid project in drafts he wrote for the World Wide Web Consortium., Berners-Lee becameincreasingly dismayed at seeing his invention being abused, such as when Russian hackers allegedly interfered with the 2016 US elections, when the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal became public, when Facebook in 2012 conducted psychological experiments on nearly 700,000 users in secret, and when Google and Amazon applied for patents on devices that listen for emotional changesin human voices.
Berners-Lee felt that the internet was in need of repair and conceived
the Solid project as a first step to fix it, as a way to give individual
users full control over usage of their data.The Solid project is
available to anyone to join and contribute, although Berners-Lee
advises that people without coding skills should instead advocate publicly for changing the internet.
In 2015, MIT received a gift from Mastercard to support the development of Solid.
Berners-Lee's research team collaborated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute and Oxford University on Solid. In 2018, Berners-Lee launched a commercial venture based on Solid, named Inrupt.
Berners-Lee's research team collaborated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute and Oxford University on Solid. In 2018, Berners-Lee launched a commercial venture based on Solid, named Inrupt.
There are a number of technical challenges to be surmounted to accomplish decentralizing the web.Applications and data must be kept separate, allowing people to store personal data where they want. Authentication must correctly identify the data owner while ensuring the privacy of identities. Rather than using centralized
spoke–hub distribution paradigm, decentralized peer-to-peer networking should be implemented in a manner that adds more control and performance features than traditional peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent. Finally, the system must be
easy to use, fast, and allow for simple creation of applications by developers.
Solid's central focus is to enable the discovery and sharing of information in a way that preserves privacy. A user stores personal data in "pods"(personal online data stores) hosted wherever the user desires. Applications that are authenticated by Solid are allowed to request data if the user has given the application permission.
A user may distribute personal information among several pods; for example, different pods might contain personal profile data, contact information, financial information, health, travel plans, or other information. The user could then join an authenticated social-networking application by giving it permission to access appropriate information in a specific pod. The user retains complete ownership and control of data in the user's pods: what data each pod contains, where each pod is stored, and which applications have permission to use the data.
For more detail, Solid consists of the following components:
1... An organized collection of standards and data formats/vocabularies providing thesame capabilities that centralized social media services offer,such as identity, authentication, login, permission lists,contact management, messaging, feed subscriptions, comments, discussions,and others.
2..Specifications and design notes describing a REST API to extend existing standards,to guide developers building servers or applications.
3.... Servers that implement the Solid specification.
4... A test suite for testing and validating Solid implementations.
5... An ecosystem of social applications, identity providers, and helper libraries that run on the Solid platform.
6... A community providing documentation, discussion, tutorials, and presentations.
There are a number of technical challenges to be surmounted to accomplish decentralizing the web.Applications and data must be kept separate, allowing people to store personal data where they want. Authentication must correctly identify the data owner while ensuring the privacy of identities. Rather than using centralized
spoke–hub distribution paradigm, decentralized peer-to-peer networking should be implemented in a manner that adds more control and performance features than traditional peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent. Finally, the system must be
easy to use, fast, and allow for simple creation of applications by developers.
spoke–hub distribution paradigm, decentralized peer-to-peer networking should be implemented in a manner that adds more control and performance features than traditional peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent. Finally, the system must be
easy to use, fast, and allow for simple creation of applications by developers.
Solid's central focus is to enable the discovery and sharing of information in a way that preserves privacy. A user stores personal data in "pods"(personal online data stores) hosted wherever the user desires. Applications that are authenticated by Solid are allowed to request data if the user has given the application permission.
A user may distribute personal information among several pods; for example, different pods might contain personal profile data, contact information, financial information, health, travel plans, or other information. The user could then join an authenticated social-networking application by giving it permission to access appropriate information in a specific pod. The user retains complete ownership and control of data in the user's pods: what data each pod contains, where each pod is stored, and which applications have permission to use the data.
For more detail, Solid consists of the following components:
1... An organized collection of standards and data formats/vocabularies providing thesame capabilities that centralized social media services offer,such as identity, authentication, login, permission lists,contact management, messaging, feed subscriptions, comments, discussions,and others.
2..Specifications and design notes describing a REST API to extend existing standards,to guide developers building servers or applications.
3.... Servers that implement the Solid specification.
4... A test suite for testing and validating Solid implementations.
5... An ecosystem of social applications, identity providers, and helper libraries that run on the Solid platform.
6... A community providing documentation, discussion, tutorials, and presentations.
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