2024 was a relatively quiet year for the Interpeer Project, so it’s only right to go out with a bang: Interpeer gUG joined the Datacom Industry Association as a founding member in December!

DIA aims to be the voice for the European Datacom Industry & Research Community, with its focus on secure, innovative, and collaborative digital communication solutions. We’re incredibly proud to be a part of this group!

At Interpeer, we consider it of vital importance Europe’s drive towards digital sovereignty is well supported by the R&D community, and a healthy digital commons is an essential component of any strategy pursuing this goal. There is no digital sovereignty if …

Happy New Year 2023!

Is a new website a good reason for a blog post? Maybe on a slow news day. But we have not been updating you here for a while, so let’s use the change of year for a recap and update.

2022 Recap

2022 has been a very busy year for us. Our R&D focus has shifted from lower level transport protocols to information-centric networking concerns. This rounds out the overall vision of a human-centric ICN stack.

Interpeer NGO Founded

• As we wrote previously, we got the paperwork for the non-profit filed. Amongst other things, that means you can now support us with donations (which we’d greatly appreciate!).
• We developed vessel, a streaming and multi-authoring capable …

Today, at 14:00, I went to the notary to sign the paperwork for incorporating a non-profit organization for the Interpeer Project.

If you’ve gone through this process before, you know that after the notary witnessing the signing of the company articles, you then have to create an account in the entity’s name, put the initial money there, prove to the notary that you’ve done so, and only then will they register the entity properly. It’ll take some time to be operational.

However, it means that the foundation date is now the 1st of June, 2022. That much won’t change.

The form of legal entity I went with is a public interest, miniature limited liability company - …