※ 본 게시물의 목적, 취지, 이력에 대해선 맨 밑의 비고를 참조(Please go to the bottom to see the purpose, intention, and prior history of this typed reproduction of an original─& incomplete─contribution by the MetaCurrency Project).
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─. Pattern of signal / carrier / protocol / flow & geometry of addressable space or existence scape that repeats throughout all of computing (and nature).
─. [DIAGRAM] Carrier / Signal / Protocol + Flow / Sequence / Pattern / Series (reference ‘CAS working paper’) C→S/P
─. Make a chart of examples─both in technological terms and bio/physical.
─. Base Ceptr protocol which identifies the protocol being used as well as semantic identifiers for the symbols. Anything which can speak the base Ceptr protocol can then communicate with / interact with anything else that speaks the base protocol.
─. What is typically called a “protocol” in a specification is for us an EMPTY protocol template which does needs to have its endpoint connection slots be connected upon instantiation.
─. Slots in: connections, roles, goals & usage ─ description of all this.
─. protocol chaining & embedding─description of how that works using CONNECTIONS and such.
─. Semantic Context for interpretation of symbols. Local symbol tables or contextual reference via Ceptr Compository for non-local (Ceptr network) communications. Always alber to receive carrier, but not necessary signal. Could install the components to process received / logged signals.
─. SemTrex(SEMantic Tree Regular EXpressions) provide lexical and syntactic parsing at all layers of a protocol stack.
─. EXPECTATION Statements: ON 〈carrier〉 EXPECT 〈semtrex_expression〉 [DO 〈action〉] [WITH 〈Parameters〉] [UNTIL 〈time_condition〉]
─. Receptor aspects can be bound to protocols.
─. Expectations can be placed on particular aspects ... or even be requested to be planted as remote listners in other receptors.
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─. Breaking data access [on the basis of] data integrity through cryptographic ─. structures. We call structuring data this way “Intrinsic Data Integrity”. [introductory paragraph]
─. Applications can enable individuals to be primary authorities over their own historical data by storing progressive hashes of that data in a shared DHT with adequate redundancy to make tampering impracticale without controlling most of the nodes. ( ... ... )
─. Signing is a low-level, always available Ceptr system function.
─. All CeptrNet communications are signed, it is possible to keep signed transaction / interaction logs / chains for various purposes.
─. Byzantine Fault Tolerance / distributed consensus across instances of a receptor.
─. Configurable levels of data assurance / redundancy in distributed patterns based on application requirements.
At the core of cryptocurrencies is the tamper proof nature of historical record. Accomplished through cryptographic data structures which have self-referencing hashes to ensure the data can't be changed. Such as Hash Chains and Merkle Trees. This enables us to handle data access distinctly from data integrity, because people can be allowed to host / access data without being able to break its integrity.
This means we no longer need to hide important data behind firewalls. We can share it openly and even in distributed storage structures such as DHT (like bittorrent, IPFS, etc.)
Historically, computing architectures have conflated data access with data integrity. If you can write to it, you can change it. So we build sophisticated security systems to keep unauthorized people out. Imagine what people would do if they could alter their bank's database.
However, structuring data in countersigned, linked chains creates a kind of Intrinsic Data Integrity where the integrity of the data is structured right into the data itself instead of the firewalls and access controls separating you from that data. If you tried to alter your most recent tranaction, you'd break the continuity of your hash chain.
Since you can't tamper with your chain of transaction records, you are able to be a trusted authority to represent the standing of your account. Quite unlike the world of bank accounts where the bank is the only authority of your account's standing with them, this provides autonomy without any central authority.
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※ 비고(This Reader's Remark): 메타커런시 프로젝트(MetaCurrency Project)의 개념과 역사에 대해 탐색해 가면서 아울러 현재와 미래에 걸쳐 동반 탐색자의 출현을 기대하는 공개적인 탐구용 게시물(A personal exploration to learn about something related to the ideas of the MetaCurrency Project and its history, having some hope to find some people interested esp. in Korea though).
