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Right now I have the feeling that a lot of people are thinking about the same problem. It might be called de-centralized network architecture. I guess Gnutella and Freenet brought these ideas to a wide audience, and now you can hear the gears churning and the light bulbs going on all over the net. Aha! Put the client and the server together, at every node, and really banish the center. WorldOS is trying to define a framework for doing just that. This page has some details about routing messages in a network without any central nodes. God, I am so excited about this stuff. It's part web architecture problem, and part deconstructive philosophy experiment. Today the web is more like several interconnected hubs (with the huge portal/search engines at the centers.) Tomorrow's web might really be a web, with messaging propagating peer to peer (to peer to peer...) and not "up" to some authority and then back "down" to a destination.