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    http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=3136953

    And so, dear reader, this is where I would like to begin. Unlike most articles in acmqueue, this one isn’t about a new technique or an exposition on a practitioner’s solution. Instead, this article looks at the problems inherent in building a more decentralized Internet. Audacious? Yes, but this has become a renewed focus in recent years, even by the father of the Web himself (see Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project4). Several companies and open-source projects are now focusing on different aspects of the “content-delivery” problem. Our company Edgemesh (https://edgemesh.com) is working on peer-enhanced client-side content acceleration, alongside other next-generation content-delivery networks such as Peer5 (https://peer5.com) and Streamroot (https://streamroot.io), both of which are focused on video delivery. Others, such as the open-source IPFS (InterPlanetary File System; https://ipfs.io) project are looking at completely new ways of defining and distributing and defining “the web.”