Folk Memory

An architecture for a distributed object infrastructure for wiki-like applications cooked up by WardCunningham but not yet implemented.

http://c2.com/doc/FolkMemory.pdf

From the paper ...

This memo describes an adaptive architecture for federating peer object servers. Both the architecture and its implementations are called Folk Memory. This term alludes to the social process by which folk tales or folk songs are remembered and propagated within a culture. The folk servers, like people within a culture, share their interests with their associates and associate with those who share their interests. Folk servers stream domain objects over simultaneous connections to peers dynamically chosen to shorten access to the authoritative sources for objects deemed interesting. Conflicts are resolved by a collective process that may not settle to identical state in all parts of a network. Folk memory favors scalability and robustness over accuracy and determinism.

Systems inspired by the FolkMemory architecture and intended to provide steps in its direction.