Portable Communities Protocol

P2P Platform

Conceptual proposal for a protocol enabling persistent, composable, application- and platform-independent online communities represented as graphs. Proposes that communities (humans + relationships) become first-class objects within and between networks using DIDs, verifiable credentials, and object capabilities. Currently at concept/proposal stage with no implementation .

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Detalhes

Licença N/A (no source code; concept paper only)
Status de Dev 📋 Planejado
Detalhe do Status de Dev Concept / Proposal (no implementation exists)
Proprietário Unknown / community proposal (references noo.network for initial graph visualization experiments)
País Unknown
Ano de Início 2023
Stack TBD (proposed PoC uses centralized ArangoDB; no protocol stack defined yet)
Financiamento Unknown / unfunded at concept stage
Última Investigação 9 de mar. de 2026

Domínios de Caso de Uso

Group Formation & Governance Platform Evolution & Sovereignty

Capacidades

Composable groups Data portability Cross-instance federation

P2P Platform Atributos

Origins Motivated by Richard Bartlett (Loomio co-founder) observation that synchronizing group membership across platforms is the critical gap in collective organizing software
Database ArangoDB (for initial centralized PoC experimentation only; intended to export to JSON)
Query Language TBD
Data Formats Graph representation: nodes (humans/collections) + edges (relationships) with type and freeform key-value data attributes; JSON export
Collaborative Live Editing TBD
Rich Text Editing TBD
Mobile Support TBD
Web Support noo.network used for graph visualization experiments
Native Apps TBD
Terms TBD
Funds Unknown
Based On Spritely Institute (OCapN infrastructure); DIDs; Verifiable Credentials (W3C); Object Capability model; ArangoDB (PoC); graph theory
P2P Architecture Proposed: decentralized personal online datastores for nodes; graph representation mappable to DAOs and smart contracts; each human node owns and controls its outbound edges
Development Tools TBD
Deployment Options TBD (proposed: decentralized personal datastores; initial PoC centralized)
Authentication & Identity Proposed: DIDs for sybil-resistant cross-community identity; Verifiable Credentials for membership verification; GreenCheck concept using 3-friend authentication
Storage Model Proposed: personal online datastores per node; centralized ArangoDB for PoC with JSON export
Interoperability Proposed: communities as portable graphs interoperable across applications via Object Capabilities (principle of least authority); boolean operations across community graphs (intersection, federation)
Social Graph Yes (core concept): communities modeled as social graphs — nodes are humans, edges are weighted/typed relationships; supports multi-community membership, graph intersection, and federation