Secure Web Objects: Building Blocks for Metaverse Interoperability and Decentralization
<|reference_start|>Secure Web Objects: Building Blocks for Metaverse Interoperability and Decentralization: This position paper explores how to support the Web's evolution through an underlying data-centric approach that better matches the data-orientedness of modern and emerging applications. We revisit the original vision of the Web as a hypermedia system that supports document composability and application interoperability via name-based data access. We propose the use of secure web objects (SWO), a data-oriented communication approach that can reduce complexity, centrality, and inefficiency, particularly for collaborative and local-first applications, such as the Metaverse and other collaborative applications. SWO are named, signed, application-defined objects that are secured independently of their containers or communications channels, an approach that leverages the results from over a decade-long data-centric networking research. This approach does not require intermediation by aggregators of identity, storage, and other services that are common today. We present a brief design overview, illustrated through prototypes for two editors of shared hypermedia documents: one for 3D and one for LaTeX. We also discuss our findings and suggest a roadmap for future research.<|reference_end|>
@article{yu2024secure,
    title={Secure Web Objects: Building Blocks for Metaverse Interoperability and
  Decentralization},
    author={Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Varun Patil, Yekta Kocaogullar, Yulong Zhang,
  Jeff Burke, Dirk Kutscher, Lixia Zhang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15221},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.15221},
    primaryClass={cs.NI cs.DC}
}