Hi Chris,
Coincidentally (or perhaps not) I've just heard about it from a
collaborator in the US, but I'd only just had time to take a quick
look. Thanks for sharing...
Cheers
--jens
On 21/08/2018 11:17, Christopher J. Walker wrote:
> Hi GridPP Storage.
>
> Saw this and thought of you.
>
> There's an LWN article at https://lwn.net/Articles/762601/
> on https://datatransferproject.dev/
>
>
> You have to be a subscriber to see the article (and I'm not). The text
> so far is:
>
> "Social networks are typically walled gardens; users of a service can
> interact with other users and their content, but cannot see or
> interact with data stored in competing services. Beyond that, though,
> these walled gardens have generally made it difficult or impossible to
> decide to switch to a competitor—all of the user's data is locked into
> a particular site. Over time, that has been changing to some extent,
> but a new project has the potential to make it straightforward to
> switch to a new service without losing everything. The Data Transfer
> Project (DTP) is a collaborative project between several internet
> heavyweights that wants to "create an open-source, service-to-service
> data portability platform"."
>
> Are you guys aware of this?
>
>
> Chris
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