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-MOSS
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-Many User Operating System Stuff
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-:Author:    Bryan Newbold
-
-Moss is a vague concept I have for an operating-system-like-system that 
-attempts to realize some of the promises of distributed universal computing
-and user management, continuation-based serializable programming, persistent
-data accessibility, file and process versioning, central foreign function
-management, and code/content distribution.  It'll be easy!
-
-.. topic:: Implementation
-
-    Moss would probably start as "stuff": middleware, userland applications, 
-    utilities, and native shell and GUI interfaces. It could also be a 
-    separate hosted virtual machine, a monolithic application, a kernel 
-    extension, or ultimately run alone over a high performance shim host OS.
-
-    Distribution would be self hosting and viral: users would replicate a copy
-    of the system from a friend instead of from a central server, patches
-    and applications would be distributed word-of-mouth, and trust networks
-    would form naturally via this distribution. Customization and feature sets
-    would be passed on, which makes it likely that a user would receive a 
-    system already tweaked for their own needs and computing knowledge level.
-
-    *Existing Projects:* Inferno, Xen, vmware, Java, GNU/*
-
-.. topic:: Universal, distributed file system
-
-    The core of the system would be a universally accessible identity-based
-    operating system. Some authoritive domain would probably be required, but
-    public identity brokers would allow anonymous identities. "Strong
-    Cryptography" is a goal, allowing a user's content to be hosted/cached
-    on third party machines in an encrypted form. The real challenge of course
-    is a flexible crypto system than can be transitioned or upgraded if a flaw
-    is discovered without total data loss.
-
-    My dream path would look something like::
-
-        /net/user@some.domain.tld/media/ledzep/tangerine.mp3
-
-    From the application end there would be no concept of "local" or "remote"
-    files to a particular machine, though perhaps some feedback on access time.
-    So, for instance, once tokens/authentication is handled, user utilities
-    like ``mv`` or ``cat`` could be applied, instead of ``scp`` or ``rcat``.
-
-    Versioning, write locks, etc would have to be considered.
-
-    *Existing projects:* OpenAFS, freeNet, ssh, kerberos, git
-   
-.. topic:: Serializable Programs
-
-    The state/continuation/environment of a running program or chain of 
-    programs should be a "first level object": a bundle of data like any other
-    that can be transmitted, copied, and stored away for later. A user should
-    be able to drag an entire application running on a desktop computer 
-    onto their laptop when then need to travel, or from laptop to workstation
-    if then need additional computing power. Distributed computing could be
-    implemented by bundling up applets that are shot off to a cluster or 
-    higher performance computer for processing, and the result state of the
-    program would simply be bundled back to the requesting client. Such bundles
-    wouldn't be very large: data would be stored on the distributed filesystem,
-    which appears identical (*exactly?*) to every node on the network.
-
-    Properly written, such a serializable system could also lead to performance
-    and power consumption savings by swapping idle programs and processes to 
-    disk, or let low-usage nodes shift their processes off to other nodes 
-    and power down.
-
-    *Existing Projects:* Lisp, Stackless
-
-.. topic:: Foreign Function Management
-
-    It would be nice to see a move away from the library model for shared 
-    code to a more flexible/dynamic foreign function interface that would 
-    allow any appropriate code to announce its availability to other
-    applications regardless of version, platform, coding language, etc.
-    This would be a high-level feature, not intended to replace kernel level
-    operations (read/write) but to make package/library management easier
-    (it doesn't matter if an image conversion function is coming from a video
-    editing package or libpng as long as it reads a raw array and returns
-    a binary stream). 
-    
-    There's room for dynamic optimization here: if program
-    realizes it's native string manipulation library sucks for 5meg+ datasets
-    it could look through the library and see if there's a better one.
-
-    *And,* this too could be distributed, allowing super easy access to 
-    distributed computing resources; underutilized nodes could make their
-    functions available to nearby nodes, or a machine with tons of matrix
-    crunching silicon (eg high end video cards) could swap work units 
-    with a machine with a dedicated crypto chip or 64bit+ processor.
-
-    *Existing Projects:* Script-fu from the Gimp