The VRM Social Network

Session Topic: The VRM Social Network

Wednesday 2C

Convener: Drummond Reed

Notes-taker: Micah McGraw

Inspired by: Doc Searls' blog post "What Would a VRM Social Network Be?

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

VRM, Social Networking, Ello, Diapora

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

VRM and social networking

• Respect Network
• Open standard personal distribution cloud
• Trust frameworks
• Ello and Diaspora
• Projectvrm.org - Doc Searls' blog post "What Would a VRM Social Network Be?
• New paradigm from client server - graph based???
• Social networks before social networks (Rolodex)
• Where is social information centralized
• Minimum viable centralization
• Burning to bit coin and beyond
• Targeting the young builders that are unaware of the rules (rule breaker)
• 1990 silo email providers with proprietary system
• 2000 SMTP
• What will the evolution of social networking look like
• Committee of the whole
• Personas
• Context == conduct
• Home on the web that's theirs - social networking is like share cropping
• What are the metaphors that describe the new paradigm
• Domainofonesown
• Identity is not node it's the connection
• Domain is home
• Where never not on the net anymore
• Xdi/uma/openid
• Book: Value Networks
• Blogs were the early social networks
• Do people really embrace central authority's
• Cookie model - do we want to be plate the cookie or chocolate chip

• Place/location is the strongest metaphor we have
• Verna Allee – “Value Networks”
• Metaphor or email – it will evolve the same
• Distributed may not survive
• How do you respect people digitally
• How many people have their own domains
• Usefulness to these metaphors, but let us also transcend them
• A domain of my own

• Reinventing what came before the wheel
• What is our personal graph -> Calf/cow is the problem
• What is personal Graph?
• Address books and contacts
• Calendars
• Problem in selling big companies on graph models
• What is it that gives us independence and a way to engage?
• Peer-to-peer
• Minimum viable centralization

VRM Social Network – Part II

Date – October 30, 2014

Doc Searls was in the session.

Goal of today’s session:

6 Properties:

1) Decentralized

2) Heterarchy

3) Interoperability

4) Substitutability

5) Independence

6) Openness

Pain Points that exist in the current solutions:

1) Not everyone is on it – true ubiquity (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter)

2) Privacy and Personal Data

a. Privacy is a new luxury good.

b. Privacy – when they understand what it costs.

3) Discrimination

4) Security (lack of)

5) Freedom Infringement

6) Legal – privacy by consent cannot be known (big data problem).

7) Economic measure of accountability – how to be an economic actor.

VRM:

1) Independence/Agency

2) Sovereignty

3) Ability to engage socially

Principals:

1) The nodes are people

2) Mirror the same architecture of the Internet

3) A place for value exchange between people

4) Must come from the people

5) 4 party model

6) Relationships/Connections

Political Movement Framework:

1) Digital Personhood

2) [Marc Davis’ talk at Privacy/Identity/Innovation 2011] (see about half-way down the page)