The Public Domain
 
 
The OFF System as Repository for The Public Domain
Applying the above requirements, we find that the OFF System makes an optimal repository for The Public Domain.
First, the OFF System is itself in the public domain. As such it is both affordable and maintainable now and extensible for the future. Additionally it meets all of the established requirements:
  1. •Distribution: OFF peers are individually owned and collectively operated by the public. No centralized organization is necessary.
  2. •Anonymity: For all parties. The storer of the work, the readers of the work, and the peers owners that make up the system.
  3. •Accountability: Via anonymous authentication. This allows peers to automatically trust reliable peers and ignore non-compliant ones.
  4. •Persistence: Works are stored perpetually. There is no delete function in the OFF System. All blocks are stored redundantly so that no peer can disrupt a work’s availability.
  5. •Flexibility: The system functions smoothly as peers dynamically join, leave or change IP addresses.
  6. •Consistency: OFF URLs are global references via localhost, and perpetual as no deletion is allowed.
  7. •Efficiency: The OFF System maintains order(1) block lookup regardless of scale. OFF is also designed to support geographically based peer preferences when tiered network speeds are involved. This along with automatic geographically-local caching of popular blocks prevents bottlenecks.
  8. •Legality: Even if a peer node is physically confiscated and examined. No infringing activity is taking place. If there is no infringing activity, then by definition, no one can be induced to infringe.