The Chronotope: a transferable unit of “internet juice” — Internet of the Air (IoA) — to connect a trillion “Things” of the Internet of Things (IoT) — to a billion people earning less than $2 a day.
A first draft of a proposal to the W3C Web of Things (WoT)
Working Group
What must be answered:
Objective / WoT Building Block
Why is this needed? Only with a standard accepted by MNOs, governments, and supra-governmental organizations can data be transferred between a trillion things with an IP address (nodes) to a billion people earning less than $2 — by hi-jacking NASAs delay/disruption tolerant networking (DTN); MNOs billing algorithms; and an editable block-chain. We can build an atonomous network to propel our “hitch-hiking” signal to hop across time and space — to connect things and people. We’ll call our little bit of data a Chronotope. Welcome to the chronotopics.
Why is this in scope of W3C? To be transferable, it must be a web standard.
What are the risks of the proposal and what are mitigations? Inflation, or deflation of the telco signal, such as with Bitcoin and the “Zollar” in Zimbabwe. An IoT unit would reach a more stable equilibrium with a higher volume of transactions. Telecommunication service providers simply add liquidity, or restrict this Juice, such as the Fed does with money. Operator incentive to maintain this equilibrium, and thereby trust, is the sale of 20% more airtime at margins of 40%. This highly liquid internal currency would become dominate by eliminating BTC high transaction fees.
Imagine a transferable unit of “internet juice” — Internet of the Air (IoA) — to connect a trillion “Things” of the Internet of Things (IoT) — to a billion people earning less than $2 a day.
This unit (X) would be a virtual, vitrual Thing; the currency of the Web of Things — the “juice” to connect a trillian things to the internet.
This technology (DTN) NASA developed for harsh conditions in outerspace with “frequent disruptions, links that are limited to one direction, possibly long delays and high error rates” — are preciscly the conditions a network of a trillion things and a billion people would experience.
“The DTN protocol suite can operate in tandem with the terrestrial IP suite or it can operate independently. DTN provides assured delivery of data using automatic store-and-forward mechanisms. Each data packet that is received is forwarded immediately if possible, but stored for future transmission if forwarding is not currently possible but is expected to be possible in the future. As a result, only the next hop needs to be available when using DTN.”
The Characteristics of a Chronotope:
- A store-and-forward mechanism along with automatic retransmission provides more insight into events during communication outages.
- Reliable and efficient data transmissions resulting in more usable bandwidth. DTN also improves link reliability by having multiple network paths and assets for potential communication hops.
- Integrity checks, authentication and encryption, even on links where not previously used.
- Many priority levels to be set for different data types, ensuring that the most important data is received ahead of less important data.
All of these characteristics are provided by DTN protocol suite.
This X would be controlled by a W3C standard block chain like scheme but at zero cost.
Transferable between telecommunications operators’s networks, especially from north to south; center to periphery.
