DistOS 2014W Lecture 6

Group Discussion on "The Early Web

Questions to discuss:

1. How do you think the web would have been if not like the present way?

2. What kind of infrastructure changes would you like to make?

Group 1

Relatively satisfied with the present structure of the web some changes suggested are in the below areas:

• Make use of the greater potential of Protocols
• More communication and interaction capabilities.
• Implementation changes in the present payment method systems. Example usage of "Micro-computation" - a discussion we would get back to in future classes. Also, Cryptographic currencies.
• Augmented reality.
• More towards individual privacy.

Group 2 A large portion of the web serves content that is overwhelmingly concerned about presentation rather than structuring content. Tim Berner-Lees himself bemoaned the death of the semantic web.

• Information to be classified in detail
  • Organize things on web. Ex: Yahoo indexers
  • Suggestion for the need of Universal Decimal System an idea by Paul Otlet to be considered.
  • In the end it comes to semantic web
• Information redundancy
• Information verification

Group 3

• What we want to keep
  • Linking mechanisms
  • Minimum permissions to publish
• What we don't like
  • Relying on one source for document
  • Privacy links for security
• Proposal
  • Peer-peer to distributed mechanisms for documenting
  • Reverse links with caching - distributed cache
  • More availability for user - what happens when system fails?
  • Key management to be considered - Is it good to have centralized or distributed mechanism?

Group 4

• An idea of web searching for us
• A suggestion of a different web if it would have been implemented by "AI" people
  • AI programs searching for data - A notion already being implemented by Google slowly.
• Generate report forums
• HTML equivalent is inspired by the AI communication
• Higher semantics apart from just indexing the data
  • Problem : "How to bridge the semantic gap?"
  • Search for more data patterns