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A completely unified and OPEN MESH is more theory than practice.

The Open Mesh is not Microsoft's Live Mesh. The open mesh is "made up of vendors, standards, and glue code that connects a wide range of services, applications, and platforms together," Marc Canter said.

Identity at the center: The key foundation set of constructs, web services and APIs to support when building the mesh - is the area of profiles, personas, friendships, relationships, social graphs and groups. It all starts with humans and every construct, element and component of the open social web we're building has to do with people.

Coming out of all this is an awareness of a new kind of infrastructure - which simulates the blood veins, nervous systems, skeletons, fire hose and neural networks of the open mesh. Its about RSS, Friendfeeds, XMPP, attention, two-way APIs, OpenID, DNS-like backbones and an international approach.

The open mesh must be made up of a combination of

 * 1. open, 
 * 2. free protocols and 
 * 3. technologies
    a. proprietary APIs
    b. technologies

Components of the OPEN MESH:

[1] - ID, Personas, Social Graphs and Groups

[2] - Persistent Ubiquitous Content

[3] - Structured Content (and shared servers filled with that stuff)

[4] - the Live Web

[5] - Tools

[6] - UI Objects

[7] - Infrastructure

[8] - Constructs

[9] - People’s Marketplace

[10] - Standards

References
How To Build the Open Mesh, Marc Canter, May 2, 2008
A reference design for building the Open Mesh, Marc Canter, June 18, 2008
The Religion of Bringing Social to Software, Marc Canter, May 12, 2008 From LIVE Mesh to the OPEN Mesh, Dan Farber, CNET May 4, 2008.