diff --git a/agora pkg chapter.md b/agora pkg chapter.md index 7fd48dd17..bf4aa9a43 100644 --- a/agora pkg chapter.md +++ b/agora pkg chapter.md @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ With this tool the Agora community can embark on shared projects. The author, as Let us use Agora Protocol if you may. -## Agora Protocol +## [[Agora Protocol]] This section describes a [[protocol]] for publicly defining sets of [[conventions]] and [[intents]] that can be said to define an Agora. An Agora is a public space that defines itself as such and follows an explicit variation of the Agora Protocol. @@ -129,11 +129,13 @@ To put it simply, an Agora defines equivalence classes optimistically with good Note that outlines plus [[linking]] seem sufficient to encode thoughts and structure of arbitrary complexity in a human readable way[^complexity]. In the opinion of the author this seems sufficient to encode a [[hypergraph]] in a human friendly way, which might do away with the need for programmatically generated [[block references]][^blockrefs]. See [[Technical Specifications]] below for more. -We also describe later how [[Agora Protocol]] can help an Agora integrate with the wider internet ecosystem and how a community could use it to run experiments on distributed thought. +Next we describe how [[Agora Protocol]] can help provision an [[Agora Platform]] which integrates pro-socially with the wider internet ecosystem, and how a community could use both to run experiments on distributed thought. [^blockrefs]: Hypothesis: [[Block References]] are suboptimal as [[cognitive devices]] due to being [[competitive]], whereas user generated IDs and encoded structure can be [[complementary]]. [^complexity]: indentation is sufficient +## Agora Platform + ## Federation Individual Agora instances, initially provisioned and maintained by like-minded groups in a [[decentralized]] ([[Fediverse]] compatible) model, but tending towards a fully [[distributed]] model, are expected to federate in a greater [[Agora network]][^fediverse].