Personal Clouds

The Web and the Social Contract

John P Kelly

Les Chasen

The Inner Logic of the Web

To understand political power

right, and derive it from its

original, we must consider,

what state all men are

naturally in, and that is, a

state of perfect freedom…

– John Locke

State of Nature

Simple Political Communities

Principalities

Empires

Modern Democracy

A Brief History of the Web

Standalone

Early Internet

First Web: The Library

Today’s Web

…whenever any Form of

Government becomes

destructive of these ends, it is

the Right of the People to alter

or to abolish it…

– Declaration of Independence

Defining the New Institutions

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Javascript

Libraries

Indexed DB

(Multi-mastered)

Provisionin

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Dictionary

Service

Reputation

Service

Cloudstore Data Storage API (Private)

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PIs

3rd party

data

sources

Peer

clouds

Billing

Service

Signaling

Service

XDI Engine XDI

Connectors

Airship APIs (Public)

XDI + OAuth Security Layer

Respect Network XDI API (Public) XDI Messaging

Blob Storage

External

Data

stores

Discovery

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Kynetx

Cloud OS

Discovery

Service