[governance] Re: [bestbits] PRISM - is it about the territorial location of data or its legal ownership

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

On 25-Jun-2013, at 14:55, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> Really open mandatory standards, for instance, for inter operability of social media platforms, is one key way to decentralise.... These are the kind of things that I meant by decentralising the Internet's architecture... parminder
> 

The internet's core architecture is massively decentralized and redundant

As for individual applications running on the internet - say social networks - you are already able to link say your skype account to your yahoo account, or ensure that your posts to facebook are also broadcast to twitter, and that you can read all your social media posts in a single client.

If that is merely all you want it already appears achieved thanks to OAUTH, SAML, JSON and a few other cool 3 and 4 letter acronyms.  But they are not "the architecture of the internet"

--srs
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