A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Decentralized Sharing Authors : Michiel B. de Jong Paul Tran-Van Filename : draft-dejong-decentralized-sharing-00.txt Pages : 21 Date : 2015-05-29 Abstract: This draft describes the steps and challenges of sharing documents between persons, using internet-connected servers. We investigate the situation where a document exists on a server to which the sender has access through some software application, but the recipient(s) don't. All recipient(s) do, however, have access to software applications that run on least one other server. We discuss existing and proposed methods for the sender to initiate the communication, for each recipient to become aware of the sender's intent to share a document, for each recipient to access the document directly, for the document contents to be transmitted to server(s) to which the recipient(s) have access, for the sender to make and announce changes in the document after it was initially sent, and for the recipient(s) to communicate comments and proposed changes to the document back to the sender. We also discuss how semantics of the document may be communicated, and how versioning conflicts may then in some cases be resolved programmatically. Given that users of personal servers don't all run the same compatible software on their server, the sending application needs to discover which application-level protocols are supported by the receiving application(s). The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dejong-decentralized-sharing/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dejong-decentralized-sharing-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt