#+TITLE: OcapPub: Towards networks of consent
#+AUTHOR: Christopher Lemmer Webber

/This paper released under the Apache License version 2.0; see [[file:./LICENSE.txt][LICENSE.txt]] for details./

* Conceptual overview

** ActivityPub

** The mess we're in

** Don't pretend we can prevent what we can't

** Anti-solutions

(Note that things in the anti-solutions category aren't necessarily
"things that aren't useful", but rather "things that end up causing
problems if they're the foundation".)

*** Blocklists, allow-lists, and perimeter security

*** Access Control Lists

*** Content-centric filtering

*** Reputation scoring

*** Going back to centralization

** A way forward: networks of consent

** Must we boil the ocean?

* Key concepts
** Object capabilities (ocaps)

*** Ocaps meet ActivityPub objects/actors

** True names, public profiles, private profiles

** Accountability and revocation in an ocap system

** Rights amplification and group-style permissions

* Future work
** Petnames

* Conclusions