RETHINK PROJECT

Decentralized network topologies were introduced in the On Distributed Communications Paul Baran's 1962 seminal Work* providing the foundations to design the Internet and the Web with no single point of control and failure. However, these basics foundations are at odds with centralized powers controlling the Web... With Web Monopolies, the fundamental users' freedom to select whom to trust their data to and select which Services to be consumed are curtailed. Users are forced to consume Services from the same organization in order to communicate or share any kind of resource with each other. The data that is generated from the Service consumption as well as a user's own identity, are managed by the very same Service provider, giving no choice to users as to whom to trust. The same problem pattern applies to communication between humans and things (Internet of Things). However, the scale and the complexity of the problem for IoT communications is much higher... reTHINK Framework..

Also known as: Worldwide Real Time Decentralized Communications