Internet Balkanization Appliance Creation Kit
Internet Balkanization Appliance (IBA) is an implementation of the OpenBalkans protocol, which can manifest as a website, a standalone application, or an actual physical appliance (although there are no known instances of this yet).
From the user's perspective, an IBA is a collection of weblogs. A weblog is a series of posts. Conceptually this is similar to Mastodon, but decentralized (as opposed to federated).
This document describes the OpenBalkans protocol (OpenBP) version 0.
Container: JSON Web Token (JWT)
Signing: ECDSA using P-256 curve, and SHA-256 (ES256)
Key derivation function (KDF): WarpWallet
ASCII Armor
Post types
Post types are a strict superset of RFC 2046 Media Types.
| Name | Type | Required | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| openbp | int | Yes | OpenBalkans protocol version, 0 |
| pk | string | Yes | Post key |
| docs | list | Yes | One or more hyperlinks to contents |
| size | int | Yes | Size of contents, bytes |
| type | string | Yes | Content-Type, Media Type(contents) |
| chk | string | Yes | Checksum, SHA-256(contents), base64url encoded |
| rel | set | No | Relational tags |
| other | object | No | Reply to other post |
| other.pk | string | Yes | Other post key (In-Reply-To) |
| other.chk | string | Yes | Checksum, SHA-256(other post's JWT), base64url encoded |
Post key is a concatenation of the following fields:
We use Satoshi's variant of Base58.
Post keys are considered to be globally unique. Any collisions should be treated as a flood attack.
Links in the docs field can be the following:
"": "jsonpointer",
"url": "https://httpbin.org/headers",
"pointer": "/headers/User-Agent"
| Rel | Type | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| collection | application/json | Collection of posts |
| self | application/ld+json | User profile |
| self, userpic | image/jpeg, image/png | User profile picture |
| upd_pk | application/octet-stream | Updated public key |
Posts with 'self' in the rel field are associated with the user account, and aren't a part of any content feed.
FAQs
Internet Balkanization Appliance
The npm package balkans receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, balkans popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that balkans demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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