ABOUT RTW
Introduction to the Real-Time Web
A Real-Time Web framework for Internet of Everything systems.
The Real-Time Web (RTW) is a new architecture for connecting, transforming, and exchanging live data across the Internet. It is written for a world in which machines, services, and people need to work with one another in the present, not only through pages that were stored yesterday.
It is designed to support machine automation and to address the : physical devices, virtual resources, software services, AI agents, sensors, actuators, and people, so they can take part in the same connected ecosystem.
The original World Wide Web was built to publish and share information: text, images, documents, and video. The Semantic Web later extended that model by making information more structured and easier for machines to read.
The Real-Time Web takes the next step. It introduces a live, bidirectional linking model that lets network resources connect directly to one another. Instead of treating data as static content retrieved from a website, RTW treats live data sources and network resources as addressable participants on the Web.
This makes it possible to connect almost any physical or virtual resource to live services through a , user-controlled network architecture.
The chapters below are meant to be read in order. Each one assumes the one above it.
- Start here. What it is, why a new architecture is needed, how it differs from the World Wide Web, what live data is, and what that makes possible.
- How it works. Live channels, the guiding principle, and how participation is structured.
- The architecture. Morphic Architecture Design, the four layers, ghosts, the bijective pairing, Morphic services, data channels, and network topology.
- Summary. What that path has covered so far.
Under the hood opens Blueprint. The Dictionary and Still open follow there.
A network architecture for live bidirectional resource relationships
Understand the idea
Keep data with its source instead of copying it into platforms
Understand the problem
Four independently owned layers, introduced in 2008
Understand the blueprint
RealTimeWeb.org is a standalone nonprofit site. It explains what the Real Time Web is, why it exists, and introduces Morphic Architecture Design (MAD).
The site is independent. The idea can be built by more than one party.
Common questions
These are the questions the source puts on RealTimeWeb.org first. Short answers live on FAQ. Each one points to the page that owns the topic.
- What is the Real-Time Web?
- Is RTW a product, protocol, or network architecture?
- Why is a new network architecture needed?
- How is RTW different from the World Wide Web?
- Is RTW intended to replace the existing Internet?
- Who created the Real-Time Web?
- Who owns data exchanged through RTW?
- Where is data stored?
- How is access authorized?
- Can anyone implement MAD or RTW?