Grassroots Distributed Systems for Digital Sovereignty: References

Table of Links

• Abstract and Introduction
• Grassroots Protocols
• Grassroots Implementation of Grassroots Dissemination
• Applications of Grassroots Dissemination Supporting Digital Sovereignty
• Future Work & Discussion
• References
• A. Preliminaries: Asynchronous Distributed Multiagent Transition Systems
• B. All-to-All Dissemination is not Grassroots
• C. Proofs

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