Fautore Documentation

This documentation is written to describe the Fautore social network paradigm. There is one fundamental principle behind the Fautore design. Your data is your property and nobody's business but your own and those you want to have access to it.

Overview

Fautore is one tool created to demonstrate the concepts of a decentralized social Internet. It is not a tool intended to be the do all, end all of online socializing. Fautore is in fact a concept of communicating online the way we do in person, with confidence in people we trust. The tool defined in these documents is one way of implementing a common set of standards that, when embraced by other software developers, will make everything we do today possible with control of our data remaining where it belongs - with its owner.

The Current Problem

The social network is a wonderful thing. The technology of today has brought us to a point where we can communicate almost like two (or more) people in a room, no no matter how far apart those people. Unfortunately, the architecture being put into place to support this wondrous phenomenon is moving forward with designs increasingly geared toward profit and less toward true social benefit. In short, the price of participating is putting your life on display like a duck hanging in a Chinese restaurant window. Anyone who participates in today's social network architecture turns ownership of everything they say, do, or present over to someone else. The worst part is that the participant on display really doesn't even know who's watching.

The Fautore Solution

The Fautore solution is built on top of the OSA Standard to architect a social Internet that functions like we do, by keeping our information to ourselves and sharing only what we choose with the people we know and trust. Now that the social experiment has proven a success by showing the world what can be done when we are all connected, it's time to move beyond the prototype that fell together and construct something with a plan founded on an environment we can trust.

Fautore Summarized

This tool we call "Fautore" is, at its heart, an information broker that takes data from well known sources and sends it to well known destinations, all while storing the information itself wherever you feel safest. Fautore is a product of the advocate principle of representing a customer/client in their own best interest. The following pages are under development, and they likely always will be, as we intend for this process to evolve endlessly.

Our roadmap is fluid. The project is much larger than Fautore alone. There is more work than there are hands doing it. More hands are always welcome.

Operational Principles

The principles of Fautore are all around the notion of maintaining a personal network of information outsde of Public Centrallized Repositories. Information should be communicated securely, visible only to it's intended audience and used only for its intended purposes. This all intended to happen with the same level of trust in the information destination as one would have in a normal conversation. We call this "Social Normalcy

Social Normalcy
Social normalcy is that communication we do every day where we have a reasonable expectation what we tell someone face to face will be treated with respect and, if shared, will be shared in the context the information it was originally provided.
Online services that depend on your data for their survival would have you believe that because it is impossible to achieve absolute data security, with a guarantee shared data will never end up in unintended hands, that we should simply turn our data over to whatever abuses they deem fit. This is roughly equivalent to saying that because you will never raise perfect children you should just turn them over to gangs and drug lords now.
Just as "perfection" is a direction to head in seeking the goal of "execellence", like walking toward the morning sun to arrive at a destination to the East, absolute data privacy only is a direction to walk on the way to a realistic goal of social normalcy, a goal unatainable using a "pay with your privacy" business model.

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In concept, information should be passed in a manner more in tune with real world human conversation by being communicated only to parties trusted to use the information strictly as intended, to keep the information in confidence or pass it on to others in a manner respectful of the information source. In this way communications occur more naturally, via a network reaching outward from the source in an environment controlled only by the social paradigm of the individual, rather than being at the whims of untrusted third parties carrying their information with vaguely defined intentions beyond simply delivering a message.

The Fautore "rules of conduct" provide the basis for Fautore operations:

• Communication is either directly with an individual, or another Fautore managed tribe.
• Fautore traffics and caches information, but does not act as a persistent data store for anything but operational data, such as logs.
• Long term storage and data presentation is accomplished by passing data to other applications within Fautore's operational domain.
• Fautore can receive data from applications within the operational domain.

Today's myriad of technologies does present grey areas needing to be resolved as to where exactly they fit in the Fautore operational principles. It is an ongoing and evolving process determining how Fautore is to interface with the world around it.

Installation

The Fautore installation is an evolving aspect of the code at the moment. In the current alpha form it is really just a matter of copying the code checked out of source control into some location on storage, then running it. Eventually the installation will be a more automated strategy for placing the software into consistent locations across operating systems.

Functions/Features

These operation are intended to be inherent in the Fautore functionality

Applications

Conceived OCE applications and their status in development
Status:

• 0 - Concept only
• 1 - Coding has started
• 2 - Functioning
• 3 - Released/Useable

Additional Documentation