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Explaining Meshy Space

Meshy Space enables people to cooperate with less effort. Where existing network implementations transport data, and offer partial data maintenance features, Meshy Space hides the transport and fully focuses on the structuring and grouping of data: strong data maintenance.

When your applications use Meshy Space, you do not need Dropbox anymore. No ftp-mirror scripts, no explicit S3 object storage interaction, no configuration of shared network disks. Many implementations of "close to the same thing" get replaced by a standard library.

Internet has standardized on data transport, but not on data interpretation. That wheel is reinvented over and over again. Meshy Space intents to standardize the overlapping needs into new abstraction layers.

Data maintenance will be braught to a much higher quality for every participating application. Out of the box distribution, authentication, packaging, configurable collecting rules, legal requirements, and much more.

Audience

Meshy Space is really different from existing concepts. When you are a computer specialist, and think "this is just like ...", then you are very probably mistaken. No-one came up with a comparible project yet. Contact us when you want to have a full (1 hour) introduction.

The human view on Meshy Space is: creating collections together. Collections of pictures, documents, software, whatever. This is exactly what is offered: sharing information, from the simplest to the most complex ways.

A quick start:

• The bigger picture, a bit more about the technical motives;
• Compare Meshy Space with other networking;

Meshy Space extends existing standard ways in which services communicate with modern needs: data maintenance, storage and processing sharding, legal aspects, authentication, and privacy. It standardizes interface components required by new (EU) law.

Meshy Space Base

The more important mechanisms in Base (object sharing) are described here. However: they may still be improved during implementation.

• Life-cycle management of Units by the Collector;
• Versions and revisions of data call for design decisions;
• Namespaces and prefixes;
• Expressions and Selectors;
• Voting in Collection maintenance;
• Notifications and Filters;
• Resources and Storage;
• TODO: Authentication and Access-rights

Meshy Space Concept

Mechanisms in Concept (object governance)

• Groups and personal proven identities
• Contracts, privacy, GDPR, jurisdiction, authentication, payments, and more.
• (Micro-)payments to finance maintenance, drive investments, and fight spam.
• TODO: Wallets and Trusted Third Parties (TTPs)
• TODO: Mimicking processes in your organization

Implementation

• Messages: how the client-server message are constructed;
• Formatting of messages in XML or JSON, or any other format you prefer;

Infrastructure based on multiple Collections

• Components: the way services are organized;
• Network dynamics
• TODO: guide to building a service yourself