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http://www.by-star.net/PLPC/180011 February 13, 2011
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This document is also available in Farsi/Persian. French and Arabic translations are in the works. Part I

• A New Currency Has Been Created: Personal Information, Privacy, Autonomy
• An Established Business Model that Translates Personal Information into Targeted Advertising
• The Debit Side of this New Currency is Humanity
• Americans got there with no discussion of long term social consequences. No discussion of Sociology, Social Psychology, Morality.
• Mr. Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook) Has Done More Harm To The Human Race Than Anybody Else His Age.
• And He Was Celebrated As “Person Of The Year” (Time Magazine).
• America is mostly an Economic Society.
• And now this American Disease is spreading through out the world.

• The wrong model: proprietary, owned and controlled
  • Ownership oriented to the Service Provider
  • Non-transparent software
  • User information owned and controlled by the proprietary Service Provider
• Structurally incoherent
  • Ad hoc: no overarching engineering design
  • Driven by short-term business expedience and profit
  • Functionally uncoordinated

• Networks are societal resources and their usage model must not be left to free markets and business.
• The Internet is today controlled by large corporations, and critical civil liberties are being compromised.
• Current Copyright and Patent laws are in conflict with nature and are harming humanity.
• As first generation engineers we have a responsibility to safeguard the societal welfare.

The goal of this project is to:

• The Full Scope of Internet Services: Star “*” in ByStar means everything
• Fully Libre: Complete rejection of so-called Western IPR
• Autonomous When Possible – Usually End-To-End
• Federated Based on Autonomous – Central only when required

• Full Spectrum Internet Services:
  Functionally Equivalent to What Exists
  hotmail, yahoo mail, google mail – Facebook, Linkedin – youtube, search
• Full Software Service Continuum – (Service, Desktop, Notebook, Handheld)
• Focused on User Autonomy and Privacy
• Purely Based on Libre Software
• A New Radical Model but Fully Evolutionary

This We call:

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We have won the Free Software battle Proprietary Software Already Lost We Demonstrated Two Things:

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Model: Free/Libre is Superior to Proprietary

2

Implementation: GNU/Linux is Superior to Windows
(More Convivial)

But Now The Game Has Changed – Software has mostly become Service.

• By* is a coherent framework for enabling complex interactions among people, businesses and information.
  • Small and Medium Businesses: ForSMB.net Individuals:
  • ByName.net, ByAlias.net, ByMemory
  • Places and Events: ByWhere.net, ByEvent.net
  • Information: ByTopic.org
  • For Interactions: ByInteraction.net

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• Language, Definitions, Models and Concepts
• ByStar Federation of Autonomous Libre Services
• Joining ByStar, Obtaining ByStar Software and Using ByStar
• Engineering Design of ByStar
• ByStar Vertical Slices (Feature Families)
• Economic and Business Dimensions of ByStar
• Societal, Inter-Societal, Social and Legal Ramifications
• Collaborative and Guardianship Framework

Part II

• Globish vs English
• Libre Vs Free
• Libre Services
• Autonomous Libre Services
• Federation of Autonomous Libre Services
• Nature of Poly-Existentials
• The Non-Proprietary, For-Profit Quadrant
• Tools For Conviviality
• Responsibilities of Professions and Health of Society
• Societal End-To-End Argument vs Rise of the Middle
• Rejection of Americanism, East vs West
• Halaal and Haraam

• The Audience for these concepts is global (Chinese, Iranians, Brazilians, Europeans and also Americans)
• ByStar belongs to Humanity – Not Any Particular Society (In contrast to Facebook, Linkedin, Google, MSN, ...)
• This is in Globish – A limited sub-set of English that has already forked off from American/British English)
• Examples: Libre and Gratis (Not Free), Convivial, Halaal

In English "Free" is ambiguous:

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Free can mean Libre: free as in freedom of action

2

Free can mean Gratis: free as in zero monetary cost

English/Globish needs the word "Libre". In this document, we generally avoid the word free. In compound usage (e.g., Free Software), When we say "free" we will always mean Libre:

• So Called Western IPR is in conflict with Nature
• What Are Poly-Existentials:
• Multi-Possessabilty
• Ownership is a one-to-one relationship
• An Ownership Mistake With Ramifications Broader than Slavery
• Pointer to PLPC – Full title in box

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The service must consist entirely of open-source & free software components

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The service must be based entirely on patent-free protocols

3

The integration software must consist entirely of free software

Hence the entire service is reproducible and modifiable based on access to source code

1

Service Transparency – Libre Services: Definitional Criteria

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Service Portability – Libre Services: Definitional Criteria

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Data Portability (from hosting/provider to hosting/provider)

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Non-Retention of Data (by host/provider)

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End-To-End Non-Restrictivity

• User Owned – Provider Managed
  • Libre Shared Hosting Subscriber SLA, AUP
  • Libre Shared Hosting Advertisment SLA, AUP
• User Owned – User Managed
  • Libre Center Co-location / Dedicated Hosting
  • Cloud Based Hosting
  • At User Premise – your own machine and dedicated IP Address

While All Is Supported, The Guarantee of “At User Premise” option should always be maintained.

• Individual (Named, Living) – ByName.com - ByName.net
• Individual (Alias, Living) – ByAlias.com - ByAlias.net
• Individual (Minor) – ByFamily.com, ByFamily.net
• Individual (Named, Deceased) – ByMemory.com - ByMemory.net
• Individual (Information) – ByAuthor.net, ByAuthor.com

• Families – ByFamily.com, ByFamily.net

• Small/Medium Businesses – BySMB.net, ForSMB.net Domain is usually redirected to business’s domain

• Locations: ByWhere.net

All of These ByStar Autonomous Services are available as Shared Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Colocation and ByStar Appliances.

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Service Transparency – Libre Services: Definitional Criteria

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Service Portability – Libre Services: Definitional Criteria

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Public Data Designated By Autonomous Libre Service

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Safeguards of Private Data and Non-Retention of Data on command

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Logs confidentiality and transparency

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Based on Facilitation of End-To-End Interactions

• Content Republishers
  • Proprietary Examples: Youtube
  • ByStar Domains: ByTopic.org, ByContent.org
• Collaborative Content Production
  • Existing Examples: Wikipedia, sourceforge, Ancestry.com
  • ByStar Domains: BySource.org, ByBinary.org, ByAuthor, ByFamily.com (genealogy)
• Personal Interaction Facilitators
  • Proprietary Examples: Facebook, Likedin, eharmoney, Yahoo!Dating
  • ByStar Domains: ByInteractions
• Trade Facilitators
  • Proprietary Examples: Craigslist, ebay, Amazon
  • ByStar Domains: ByInteractions
• Search Engines
  • Proprietary Examples: Google, Bing
  • ByStar Domains:

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• Consistent OS: Linux everywhere
• Consistent GUI: Gnome everywhere
• Consistent Applications: Emacs, ... everywhere

Deep, Broad and Consistent Integration through Free Software and Libre Services

• Interactions Amongst People/Businesses and Information Could Be:

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  Direct – End-to-End

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  Central – Middle-Controlled

• End-To-End vs Middle-Controlled Architectures have both Engineering and Societal Ramifications
• Today’s Industrial Internet Application Services are generally Central and Middle-Controlled.
• The Convivial ByStar Libre Services are generally End-To-End and Middle-Light.
• The End-To-End model is Autonomy and Privacy Friendly
• The Middle-Controlled model is Hostile to Autonomy and Privacy

• End-to-end Arguments in System Design
  http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf
• Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world
  http://www.csd.uoc.gr/y558/papers/Rethinking_2001.pdf
• The Rise of the Middle and the Future of End-to-End.
  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3724.txt
• Tools for Conviviality - Ivan Illich
  https://clevercycles.com/tools_for_conviviality

The most important benefit of the end to end arguments is that they preserve the flexibility, generality, and openness of the Internet. Movement to put more functions inside the network jeopardizes that generality and flexibility as well as historic patterns of innovation. A new principle evident already is that elements that implement functions that are invisible or hostile to the end to end application, in general, have to be “in” the network, because the application cannot be expected to include that intermediate element voluntarily.

• Make Services Autonomous Whenever Possible (peer-to-peer oriented)
• Invest and Focus on End-to-End communications facilities amongst Autonomous Libre Services
• When a Federated Service functions as an intermediary, limit its role to the bare essential of hooking the two ends. Thereafter, communications can be end-to-end.

Tools are intrinsic to social relationships. An individual relates himself in action to his society through the use of tools that he actively masters, or by which he is passively acted upon. To the degree that he masters his tools, he can invest the world with his meaning; to the degree that he is mastered by his tools, the shape of the tool determines his own self-image. Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision. Industrial tools deny this possibility to those who use them and they allow their designers to determine the meaning and expectations of others. Most tools today cannot be used in a convivial fashion.

• Unix/GNU Vs Microsoft Windows
  • Unified file model, pipe, small dedicated progs, ...
• Emacs vs Vi
  • buffers, major-modes, minor-modes, key-maps, frames, windows, regions,
• qmail vs sendmail
  • complete separation of queuing and spooling from submission, delivery and protocols.

Enable the tool user to be creative and expressive

• Global Scope – Can’t be dominated/dictated by Western Values
• East vs West Fundamental Distinctions:
  • East: More Society Oriented
  • West: More Individual Oriented – More Economically Driven

• What Does “Profession” Mean? It also includes Societal Responsibility.

• Halaal means Moral/Ethical – Okay to do/consume
• Haraam means Immoral/Unethical/Harmful – Should Not Be Done/Consumed

Defining Halaal Software/Internet Service:

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Is A Perpetual Transparent Modifiable Poly-Existential –
Equivalent of “Free Software”

2

Its Use Has Been Endorsed By The Engineering Profession

3

Its Use Has Not Been Prohibited By Ethicists
(Sources of Emulation)

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Part III

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• Rudimentary Manifestations
  • LAMP
    • Linux - Apache - MySQL - Perl/PHP/Python
  • Savannah and Savane
  • Wikipedia and Mediawiki
  • Can we do better than that?
    • Expand it
    • Formalize it
    • Make it be cumulative

• A named entity domain - Owned by the entity
  • A public website: My Internet
  • An expanded website for friends: My Extranet
  • A private portal: My Intranet
• By* Libre Self-Publication Facility
• By* Libre Texting
• Email, e-fax, etc.
• Blog, photo gallery, GeneWeb, etc.

• BACS Autonomous Appliances – Guaranteed Autonomy
• BISP Appliances
• ByStar User Environments – Blee on Debian and Ubuntu
• Re-Branding of ByStar

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Part IV

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