Decentralization

Full Title or Meme

Decentralization is one half cycle of any organization which is designed to restore invention. The other half of the cycle is Centralization which is designed to restore control, typically of costs. The cycle ends with death of the organism.

Context

For Identity Management the cycle of organization has started in the age of the Internet with Decentralization to provide Resilience to the Centralized communications networks which failed when the center failed.

The ages of the Internet have been these:

1. Internet 0 - decentralization was the point. Only the naming systems were centralized which was. just for the convenience of the developers as the Internet only understood IP addresses.
2. Web
3. Web 2
4. Web 3

Problems

This section focuses on the problems of decentralization which is the current fad. The problems of centralization are the bogeyman that started the current wave.

Solutions

Enjoy the ride. The alternative appears to be death.