As introduced in Section 2.1, a DIDO community is a community of interest (CoI) responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, maintenance, and eventual sunset (yes, all good things come to an end) of DIDO networks and its DIDO nodes. DIDO communities should have a well-documented, repeatable, traceable, transparent, and unbiased process that is managed and […]
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For practical reasons, the acronym Distributed Immutable Data Object (DIDO) represents a set of distributed computing technologies that focus on distributed data (i.e., blockchains, distributed ledgers, distributed file systems or distributed data). A major problem confronting the adoption of DIDO technologies is that it requires shifting away from corporate models of governance to an open
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A taxonomy is a way of organizing things into useful and convenient classes. Each class can then be treated as an abstraction of the individual elements. For example, Dog is a class of Animal. Once an individual entity is classified as a Dog, generalizations can be made about what to expect from the individual entity.
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Technical Views are intended to define at a high level the various components of larger DIDO systems. They outline generic parts, subparts, and interconnections of those parts and subparts for a DIDO system. For each part or subpart, a list of potential standards, best practices, and tools is provided. There are multiple views, subdivided into
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Within this context, the following definition of Stakeholder is used: A stakeholder is a person, group or organization that has interest or concern in a [target] organization. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the [target] organization’s actions, objectives and policies. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/stakeholder.html Note: [target] added for clarification purposes In a centralized or decentralized topography, this
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The goals of a Reference Architecture (RA) as expressed in this paper are derived from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (OASD/NII)1) , which are: Provide a common language for the various stakeholders Provide consistent implementation of technology to solve problems Support validation and comparison of implementations Encourage
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As of June 12, 2018, there were 1,628 Cryptocurrencies available, with a total market cap around $300 Billion1),2). DIDO implementations and interest in them are currently in the Positive Hype part of the technology Hype Cycle as defined by Gartner.3) Figure 1: Gartner Group Hype Cycle A major concern and part of the motivation behind
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The term Distributed Immutable Data Objects (DIDO) refers to the underlying technologies supporting distributed data and computation across a distributed network of peers using consensus algorithms to maintain integrity and consistency across the network. After the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto’s paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System1) and the exponential growth of other cryptocurrencies, there
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We know it’s annoying but we’re excited to share our knowledge and want to turn DIDO TE from prototype to full fledged product. To do so, we need to be our hero and show there’s interest.
