In the context of "digital assets" or "token-based" activities, the term PROTOCOL is often interpreted to mean "crypto-currency". This use is only one small part of a much larger universe of activity.
PROTOCOL may be more broadly defined to refer to "data and transport" architecture of an adhoc grouping of participants in one of more interconnected networks, often referred to individually as a "decentralised autonomous organisation" or "DAO" or collectively as DAOs, as there is no central point.
Parties interact under a set of digitally enforced rules, procedures and governance which may be agreed from time to time, including by a vote of participants, each of which may possess a "token" to join the group, a token to vote (which may be the same), even including tokens to receive goods and/or services and perhaps to pay for transactions activity, again which may be one type of token.
It is this last usage which receives such interest in the term "Protocol" and creates confusion in the marketplace. The next few blocks provide a bit of history regarding Tokens, Protocols, DAOs, Web 1.0 - 3.0 and the current state of transition.
With this historic understanding, an objective is to illustrate hereafter, by comparison (or perhaps "diffing", a new approach to IT processing prevalent in "artificial intelligence" forms of IT activities), the parallel path of Web 1.0 - 3.0 and Alliance i - iii.o over the past two decades.
More specifically, this White Paper embraces the concepts and objectives of Web 3.0 while providing transformative transition implementation resources in "bridging" what we term "HOMEWORLD" (legacy) and "DIGITALUNIVERSE", a new digital world into which we are transitioning.
pro·to·col
NOUN
protocol (noun) · protocols (plural noun)
1. the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions:
the accepted or established code of procedure or behavior in any group, organization, or situation:
2. the original draft of a diplomatic document,
especially of the terms of a treaty agreed to in conference and signed
by the parties:
3. a formal or official record of scientific experimental observations:
4.computing
a set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.
As used hereafter, the definition of PROTOCOL expands to include additional components, technologies, assets, usages, activities, structures, organisations, archetypes, processes and all things necessary to achieve objectives which form the ECOSYSTEM defined by the PROTOCOL.
In many ways, elements of Alliance iii.o are counterintuitive in the context of Web 3.0 Data Access Protocols ("DAP") and decentralised autonomous organisations ("DAO"). The relationship however is a "bridge" between two worlds which operate under two different forms of Protocols.
A DAO operates under and is governed through is Data Access Protocol and other Protocol elements formulating its DAO.
Under Alliance iii.o, many components may have no or limited interaction with the DAO, or parties operating exclusively within the DAO. Thus, the authors were compelled to consider forms of hybrid structures.
In 1991, the authors created a new form of organisational structure, with included specialty configurable use "nodes" synergistic with broader group structures somewhat akin to a DAO. This form is now the basis of many juridical person legal structures worldwide.
In addition, the authors had developed in the early 2000s, advancements in active code embedded in data elements. The epiphony came with porting the "bridge" PROTOCOLS into the DAO DAP
The instance PROTOCOL is actually comprised of a series of integrated PROTOCOLS, based on the unique PROTOCOL objectives and necessary configurations to achieve such objectives.
Beginning with Alliance iii.o as the base protocol, a series of core PROTOCOLS create a base layer framework for legacy integration, network | transport and a broad range of what might be viewed as environmental functionality, finally adding on the use case primary PROTOCOL, as the icing on the cake.
Alliance iii.o provides a base layer framework ("Bridge Framework"), applicable generally to all forms of PROTOCOLS under Alliance iii.o. An objective is to have a consistent, secure implementation and operational component infrastructure which extends through the ECOSYSTEM created by an PROTOCOL establishing that ECOSYSTEM.