ShuttleWorth Foundation

Proposal Roadmap

Phases of Development

• Phase 1: Long Term Investments (2015)
  • Infrastructure
  • Low-Level Development
• Phase 2: Capitalize on Dividends (2016)
  • Robust Legacy Interoperability
  • Consumer-Friendly Applications
  • Anonymity Enhancements
• Phase 3: Worldwide Adoption (2017)
  • Default Inclusion with Tor
  • OS-Level Adoption
  • Self-Sustaining Funding

Phase One

Long-Term Investments

• Capacity Building legal, funding, infrastructure, and more.

• Coalition Building 501(c)6 industry working group.

• Developer UX docs, client libs, and refactoring.

• Legacy Infrastructure building ubiquitous access to .bit sites.

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• Middleware improve dev UX, advanced DNS.

• Browser Addon zero-config, zero-wait Firefox add-on

• Core Development match Bitcoin and add functionality.

Capacity Building

• Legal

  • Legal entity to receive funds (SFC?).

  • Formalize existing governance structure.

  • Retain legal counsel.

• Funding: grants for phase two.

• Infrastructure

  • Namecoin Enhancement Proposals

  • etc.

• IETF/ICANN engagment.

Coalition Building

• Potential 501(c)4 or 501(c)6 industry group.
  • Engage with other cryptos to create additional decentralized TLDs.
    • BitShares
    • Ethereum
    • CounterParty?
  • Shared infrastructure costs.
• Create forum for related business.
  • Registrars
  • Exchanges

Developer User Experience

• Documentation

• Unify website

• Client libraries in 5+ languages.

• Testnet-in-a-box

Legacy Infrastructure

• Web Interop
  • Speech.is vs traditional .bit suffix

    • Legal analysis.

    • Availability of ‘.bit.xyz’ domain.

      • .bit.us is vulnerable to domain name seizure

      • .bit.ch, bit.se ... insulated from seizures

    • Blacklist legislation like SOPA, PIPA, and TPP?

  • Backend infrastructure is the same for each solution

• NSL "Proof" backend
  • Hidden resolvers on Tor.

  • Threshold DNSSEC encryption.

    • ⅗ key signers will be anonymous admins operating on Tor.

    • Warrant canaries.

Browser Add-On

Finished by end of Phase One!

• Package Lightclient.

• Finish Tor-related functionality.

  • Add advanced name resolution features.

  • Check for proxy leaks.

  • Compatible with Tor proxy.
• Fix UI.
• Add test coverage.

• OS-level integration (XUL Runner).

  • All browsers.

  • Proxy detection.

  • GUI installer.

Middleware (NMControl)

• Possible rewrite.

• Port Unbound DNS server.

  • Resolve local queries.

  • Zone exporting.

• Add unit test coverage.

Core Development

• Reimplement on Bitcoin mainline and maintain parity.

• Simulate and implement floating price proposal

  • Dynamic domain name pricing.

  • Different prices for different namespaces.

• Simulate and implement changes to difficulty algorithm.

  • Predictable renewals times.

• Clean up repos.

• Initialize continuous integration services.

• Reproducible builds.

Phase Two

Capitalize on Dividends

• Robust Web Interop universal access to .bit.

• Additional Decentralized TLDs no single-point-of-failure.

• Fundraising transition to crowdfunding.

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• Tor Integration low-level Tor Browser Bundle integration.

• Anonymity native anonymity for network and currency.

• Core Development Bitcoin sidechain, other enhancements

Web Interop

• Increase hidden resolvers from 2 to 5.
• Push for .bit resolution at universities, OpenDNS, etc.

• [Speech.is: remove centralized name resolution.]

3+ Decentralized TLDs

• Chance to fix some issues:

  • Reserve some names

    • Top 1,000 (mitigate IP concerns)

    • Wikileaks, other important sites.

• Enhance overall security with plurality of designs

  • Smaller download size.

  • Different POW.
  • Different codebase.
  • etc.

Fundraising: Self-Sustaining

• Switch to crowdfunding for core project.

• Keep developers in academia!

  • PhD programs.

  • Postdocs or professorship.

• Team up with Tor.

• Independent development and funding from:
  • Registrars
  • Exchanges
  • TLD Coaltion

Tor Integration

• Firefox needs a pluggable authentication system.
  • Currently using Marlinspike's Convergence.
    • Hackish: proxy that replaces encryption.
  • DANE?
    • Less of a hack...
    • Compatible across browsers (if they support it).
• Code audit.

Full Anonymity

• Zerocash

  • Currency level anonymity.

  • Privacy for domain owners.

  • Legal/political issues....

• Lightclient anonymity
  • Regular DNS queries are partly anonymous.
  • What level?
    • Network Coding (requires research)?

    • Tor vs I2P?

  • Work with Bitcoin Foundation!

Core Development

• Anonymity
• Bitcoin side chain.
  • Buy Namecoins using Bitcoins.
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