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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Overview 1.2 Presentations 1.3 Class Hierarchy 2 Ongoing Work 3 Links 4 See Also

Introduction

This wiki is about the decentralised XML-based networking system known as Friend2Friend. It complements the machine-created F2F documentation at http://friend2friend.net/docs. Its main purpose is to help developers who are building the F2F platform, and its secondary purpose is to help coders who are developing software for F2F.

Overview

Friend2Friend (F2F) uses increases in the speed and availablility of computers to further decentralize WWW. Instead of remote sites collecting their data, people keep it on their own machines. Instead of querying 3rd parties' static databases, people contact their friends directly and ask them to ask theirs, and so on. Passwords are replaced by digital signatures, a few large databases by many small XML files. Closed-source sites by open-source modules, scripted in an XML-based language.

Presentations

• FF2 - Introduction to F2F, begins by introducing public-private cryptography.
• FF4 - Decentralized Programming with F2F
• F2F Presentation Page

Class Hierarchy

F2F server Manages communications, soft-systems

Soft-system Independent trees of soft-nodes, with their own private key

Soft-node Unit of resource provision (c.f. software) hosts processes and threads

(Process) Optional structure to facilitate thread decentralised communication

Thread Set of requests with common origin and uid

Request Individual operations, usually services

Ongoing Work

F2F is under active development:

• Documentation: organising this wiki, the HTML docs and the presentations.
• Hard Code: the design and initial implementation (currently in PHP5) of the F2F kernel, displays.
• Soft Code: the XML modules that provide custom resources to supplement those of the F2F kernel.
• Modules: to complement the functionality of F2F kernel.
• Open Questions: key decisions not yet made about future versions of F2F.

Links

URI	Description
http://friend2friend.net	This project's main URL.
http://altruists.org/ae	Altruistic Economics, the original motivation for this project.
http://altruists.org/ge	The project that motivated Altruistic Economics.
http://www.anonymous-p2p.org/programs.html	Summary of F2F and anonymous P2P software.
http://xcruciate.co.uk	Another XSL-based server framework (with its origins in VR!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend-to-friend	Wikipedia F2F page.

See Also

• What is F2F?
• FAQ