When we started working on DASL, it was little more than an experiment. We talked to as many people as we could who had been interested in content addressing but couldn't make it work for their needs. The result was radically focused on interoperability and adoption, on a mission
DASL: Governance of the DASL Project
The goal of the DASL Project is to develop content-addressing primitives and the technologies that build on them, with a view towards enabling unbundled software and protocol architectures that best align with and promote democratic systems.
Capability Trees: Sovereignty Is the Point
This piece argues that DASL introduces security risk when applied to delegations, and that by not using DASL, capability trees avoid that risk.
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
A small set of simple, standard primitives to work on content-addressed data.
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
A small set of simple, standard primitives to work on content-addressed data.
DASL: MASL — Metadata for Arbitrary Structures & Links
MASL is a CBOR-based metadata system that is designed to work well with content-addressed and decentralised systems, to enable fully self-contained, self-certified content distribution.
The Yak Online Governance Primer :: The Yak Collective
How do you do online governance? This primer is intended as a guided tour through a curated set of readings — based on a year of study by the Yak Collective1 — that can help groups and organizations navigate this question.
\x5bSIG\x5d Data Governance: Data Organisation
Data Organisation Foundational Structures of Asset Governance Key Value Pairs 3 infrastructure Git Wiki Service management Ben Koo, Tim Bansemer, Jared Cordon May 25, 2021 HDX Thread 5: ICT Awareness and Competency in Data Governance
The Purpose of Protocols
Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?
The Purpose of Protocols
Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?
How to choose a governance system for your organization
Is your nonprofit, small business, or volunteer group looking for a new way to make decisions? Many groups are questioning our mainstream systems — and that includes the systems by which we make decisions. Governance used to be one of the things we’d all take for granted, and now it’s one of the cho
Embedded Governance: Control That Works by Disappearing - Astral's Blog
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025. His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It is adopting a teams structure and looking toward creating a steering committee, as well as bootstrapping a Request for Comments (RFC) process. If adopted, GNOME would require RFCs for design, user experience, architectural, and other changes that carry a major impact on the project.
Collective funding, governance and prioritization of a browser engine projects · Issue #11 · w3c/breakouts-day-2025
Session description Today, each of the three main, open source browser engine projects have a steward organization which contribute, by far, the lion's share of the project's commits - 75-9...
Organizing
Governance, collaboration, how to work together without being awful.
Conflict Systems
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The Tyranny of Stuctureless
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