DistOS 2014W Lecture 6

Group Discussion on "The Early Web

Questions to discuss:

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