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 - …

There is an ongoing discussion on human rights on the Internet on the IRTF HRPC mailing list that I want to express an opinion on.

I would also like to stress that this is not an official position of the Interpeer Project. Although we are yet small, there exists already a variety of positions amongst contributors on all kinds of topics. No, this is a purely personal opinion.

For context, the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is a sibling to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that does not get a lot of publicity. While IETF concerns itself with standards on interoperability of current networks, IRTF looks further into the future. The HRPC list concerns itself with Human Right …

I was recently reminded of the fact that people use the term “peer-to-peer” to mean a variety of different things. That can make conversations on the topic difficult, as with any situation where you assume you have common ground, only to discover that is not the case.

In this interlude, I want to – really quite quickly – disambiguate some things, as a kind of reference for future conversations. You don’t need to agree with me. Though if that’s the case, I’d be interested to hear about it!

Protocols

The most basic source of misunderstanding I encounter regards what exactly constitutes a protocol, never mind if it’s peer-to-peer or not.

The term …

February is FOSDEM month. This year, I was able to give a talk on how REST contributes to centralizing the web, and what could be done about that.

FOSDEM'22: On the Far Side of REST