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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

Theorizing Protocolization II: Atomic Protocol Questions

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

Strangeness, illegibility, hardness

An update from our Protocol Fiction special interest group

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (FOSDEM'26)

Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same. How do we make the next generation of protocols ...

Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub DWeb Camp 2026

Christine Lemmer Webber is lead author and co-editor of the W3C ActivityPub specification. Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, working on the AT Protocol specification at the IETF. Join us for a discussion on decentralization trade-offs and other design decisions in the two protocols, and what that means for different architectures, structures, and even future points of convergence. Moderated by Boris Mann

Introducing the Protocol Institute

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

In Search of Hardness

Protocol studies, the next crypto cycle, and the next age of the world

Protocol Reader - Summer of Protocols

In the Fall of 2022, the word protocol was suddenly everywhere. The proximal cause was obvious: fueled, in part, by the highly visible and fractious change of ownership at Twitter, large numbers of people began heading for the exits. Most of them, of course, were just looking for

Protocols for Publishers Showcase · Luma

Protocols for Publishers is an event and workshop series that brings together publishers, developers, and researchers to explore open protocols for a…

AT Protocol - AT Protocol

Specification for the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol)

FOSDEM 2026 - Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future

Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

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.

Protocols and Power

If "context" is king, we need to ensure it remains fluid and accessible by third-party developers

The 2026-07-28 Specification

The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification is out, bringing a stateless protocol core, Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs.