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Publishing & Discovery Without Platforms

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Overview

Atlas is a transport-protcol-agnostic P2P decentralized publishing and discovery protocol where users own their data and govern it to converge into structured, interoperable databases, empowering users and developers.

The system separates 5 elements:

• Identity - cryptographic private key.
• Content - identified by hash, signed by author and readable only by targetted audience.
• Storage - distributed databases (best-effort caches) for standarized formats.
• Semantics - governed by open contribution processes (Schema.org).
• Gossip - knowledge of other Nodes.

Atlas-compliant systems MUST be:

• Open - Allow configuration of multiple Nodes to pull data from.
• Fair - Communicate with all Nodes equally, in accordance with their transparent local policy.

Atlas-compliant systems SHOULD be:

• Semantic - Built on top of structured data formats, allowing interoperable, distributed databases to emerge in the ecosystem, preserving user's ownership over his data.
• Gossiping - Share and aggregate knowledge about known Nodes and their metadata to improve network discoverability.

Core Concepts

User

Person controlling a cryptographic private key.

• Creates, signs, and publishes Envelopes (data).
• Chooses to which Nodes to publish to and from which Nodes to read from.