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Vision and principles
Eternal widespread ownership of the Web, and who created the architecture.
Eternal widespread ownership of the Web
We see the Web as the world’s largest marketplace and one of humanity’s most important platforms for communication, creativity, and innovation.
We believe the Web should reward and protect the people and organizations that create its value. Individuals, developers, device owners, service providers, and domain owners should have meaningful control over the resources they contribute to the network, and a fair opportunity to benefit from what they create.
The guiding principle is: Eternal widespread ownership of the Web.
This means building a Web that cannot be permanently captured or controlled by a small number of centralized platforms. Ownership, intelligence, and access control should remain distributed among the participants in the network.
RTW seeks to upgrade the Web by adding new dimensions of live communication, resource ownership, and machine interaction, while preserving the open and decentralized qualities that made the Web successful.
Who created the Real-Time Web?
The Real-Time Web was created by Norwegian technology inventor Paal Kristian Levang.
Its architectural foundation, known as Morphic Architecture Design (MAD), was first introduced by Levang in 2008. The architecture grew out of his work in distributed systems, machine communication, the Internet of Things, semantic technologies, and real-time data exchange.
Over several years, the concepts were developed and tested through research, prototypes, proof-of-concept systems, and commercial technology projects. This work eventually evolved into the Real-Time Web architecture.
RTW is now being introduced as an open technological ecosystem in which developers, organizations, device owners, service providers, and users can create and control their own network resources.
What this site covers
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 is not owned by a company. It tells the reader what the Real Time Web is, why it exists, and introduces MAD.
Next in this path is How participation works, then Morphic Architecture.