Challenges: Trivial, Grand, and Whitehead

Inventing New Nature

Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission

Introducing the Protocol Institute

Building a field and community to steward the planetary-scale process of protocolization

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

What is clear is that there is no simple solution to these challenges, and most of the ones that are normally presented tend not to deal with the reality of the problems or to understand the technical and societal challenges that likely make them impossible.

Why a New Protocol? The History and Future of AT Protocol - AT Protocol

Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Head of Protocol Daniel Holmgren join for a wide-ranging conversation about what atproto is, why it exists, how it got built, and where it's going next. From a Twitter consultancy to an IETF working group, this is where to get started.

Protocol Reader - Summer of Protocols

The Protocol Reader The Protocol Reader is an 358-page book (currently only available as an epub) comprising 26 foundational essays by 31 authors from the Summer of Protocols program, carefully edited and sequenced to introduce you to the fascinating new discipline of Protocol Studies. It can serve as

AT Protocol builder manifesto - WIP, comments wanted!

working title: "Why AT Protocol Will Win: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere"

Theorizing Protocolization II: Atomic Protocol Questions

Solving real coordination problems to discover the formal laws of protocols.

The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols | Summer of Protocols

DRAFT Version 0.99, March 6th, 2023

Lexicons - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol

A schema-driven interoperability framework

Strangeness, illegibility, hardness

An update from our Protocol Fiction special interest group

AT Protocol, Part 2: Explanation For Non-Techies

Thanks to all who responded to my call for suggestions!

Dangerous Protocols - Summer of Protocols

Protocols are frequently touted as the liberating alternative to walled technological gardens, but the historical purpose of protocols has always been to simplify decision-making and reduce human agency. How do we reconcile these two narratives? I explore the dangerous side of protocols, and how their ability to drive coordination means they also have

Blog | Lexicon Community | Offprint

A working group that stewards a shared namespace for AT Protocol schemas: built in the open, governed collectively, and free for anyone to use.

Mike Masnick on protocols for publishers

An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026.