Zot Protocol

Example(s):
- Hubzilla's DOSN protocol,
- ...
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Counter-Example(s):
- ActivityPub,
- ActivityPump.
See: OpenID, Decentralized Online Social Network, Decentralized Cloud System, Internet Protocol Suite, Nomadic Identity, Distributed Friends and Relations Network (DFRN).

References

(Hubzilla, 2021) ⇒ https://hubzilla.org//page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project Retrieved: 2021-10-17.
- QUOTE: Zot is a JSON-based web framework for implementing secure decentralised communications and services. It differs from many other communication protocols by building communications on top of a decentralised identity and authentication framework. The authentication component is similar to OpenID conceptually but is insulated from DNS-based identities. Where possible remote authentication is silent and invisible. This provides a mechanism for internet scale distributed access control which is unobtrusive.

(Macgirvin, 2017) ⇒ Mike Macgirvin (2017). "Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin on building your own apps and protocols". In: eDistribute.
- QUOTE: As far as quality protocol specifications, Zot is at the low end. It started off as an experimental specification and I haven’t seen much interest from other projects in working together on anything — especially something that was invented by a different project. Subsequently Zot is currently only being used in a handful of forked projects. (There was an alternate Zot implementation in Java early on but that project has long been abandoned.) There is enough documentation available that somebody could implement the basic services independently; but might have issues with some of the more esoteric communications like key change notifications and clone sync packets for datasets which they don’t support locally.

(Friendika, 2011) ⇒ https://web.archive.org/web/20110920225421/http://project.friendika.com/node/124 Submitted by friendika on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 09:35
- QUOTE: Zot! is a streamlined privacy protocol for social networking, drawing on all the strengths of DFRN, but reduced down to the bare essentials. We still provide RINO node-node message encryption. We still provide dual authentication of every communication before it is allowed. We still provide seamless remote-login to turn decentralised server nodes into one large but private space - with your own privacy rights extended to the farthest node.