[Eof-dev] The Future Of EOF

[David F. <dav...@ya...>]

Since I'm now the lone coder working on EOF, and the psuedo-manager, I've 
made some decisions about the future of the EOF project. I'd just like 
people's thoughts on the matter.

The Future of Everything Over Freenet
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From this point in time forward, EOF will not be a software package, but 
rather a standards organisation. The organisation will be run by consensus on 
what is the right thing. EOF will be come a group for freenet like the IETF 
is for the internet. I'm proposing we set up a freesite, which will contain 
the EOF organisation information, and also a section call Free for Comment. 
The FFC's will be numbered just like the IETF's RFCs, and will describe a 
standard for a type of communication via Freenet. Applications compliant with 
a certain FFC would be able to interoperate, and would keep everyone working 
in a similiar direction, instead of having 15 millions standards for mail, 
messaging and BBS's on Freenet.

FFC's would have three status modes. Planning, would be when the FFC is first 
proposed by any person. Once everyone is happy with the plan, it would move 
to the Comment stage, where people would comment on what is needed to be 
changed. Once consensus could be found, it would be ratified by EOF, and 
would from then on be a standard.

The Everything Over Freenet project would not be involved in any coding of 
applications to use the standards developed, it would only set the standards. 
Anyone would be free to implement software based on the standard, because the 
standards would be public domain.

If nobody has any problems with this, I will go ahead and start work on 
setting EOF up as an organisation for standards. The only code as part of EOF 
would be the code to run the freesite and sourceforge page easily. I won't 
delete any of the existing EOF code already in CVS, it will just stay there 
if anyone wants it. What do you guys think? Thanks,

David