Stephen Downes

According to this summary article, " the CommonsDB pilot has proved that purpose-built, content-derived registries operate reliably at production scale." Importantly (to me, at least), "A recurring theme throughout the event was the rejection of centralized, single-source databases in favor of a distributed, federated network of community-governed registries." There are many moving parts in a system this complex, and the intent is to show "that open standards, cryptographic trust, and federated networks can deliver a scalable, public-interest copyright ecosystem." The full set of slides from the conference is available here.