Very interesting.
This is exactly what we are targeting as alternative cyberspaces concepts and architectures that could be hosted (running) on a metacyberspace.
Currently, the cyberspace definition is not precise, and many people consider the cyberspace as the "network infrastructure" of the internet, that is, the part that manages the transmission (routing, etc) of data between remote machine. Typically, the current cyberspace called internet only transfers data through it infrastructure, there is no distributed "computation power" or "storage power" included in the current infrastructure : These task are only handled by peripheral end-points (private servers, clouds, clients) that are interconnected through the infrastructure that is therefore only a "telecommunication network" infrastructure.
We think that good alternative candidate of cyberspaces concepts should include not only the "telecommunication network" functionality we currently have, but also "distributed computation and storage" capabilities :
In such paradigm, the P2P nodes infrastructure and network connecting all our end-points, is not only a purely routing infrastructure, it would also be a distributed storage and computing one. Each node's computing and storage capabilities could be temporarily or permanently affected to some applications or users on demand.
If current clouds belong to private companies, causing many issues in terms of cyber-powers and rights models, in such alternative paradigms we create what we could call an "Anti-cloud" in the way that the "cloud" formed by all these nodes that are also the remote data transmission infrastructure, belongs to all the users, equally, and is collectively managed in terms of resources attribution rules, contrarily to what is being done in the current cloud concept.
The grace of this Plan 9 OS you are presenting us, in terms of concept, is that it was designed to run across such kind of alternative architectures of "public or common global cloud" formed by all those nodes, each citizen being asked to run one and only one node, by design. All nodes having same characteristics, or requiring minimal ones. Keeping an exact symmetry or equality between nodes forming such infrastructure has both advantages and draw back, this is another topic. There are also mixed approaches possible.
Still, thank you for sharing this concept with us, it must be worth having a look at it and talking about it here.
