Metadata

What data define an orbit? Here are some ideas:

• Patricia Merkle trie root hash of most current content updated by administrator
• Patricia Merkle trie root hash of most current authorization policy log updated by administrator
• List of IPv4/IPv6/etc. hosts that are in the orbit
• What else?

Discovery

How do you find an orbit? Here are some ideas:

Public Orbits - meant to be discovered and and accessed by anyone

• Smart contracts on public blockchains
• DHTs that are publicly accessible a la bittorrent

Private Orbits - meant to be selectively disclosed

• Smart contracts on private blockchains
• Smart contracts on public blockchains with encrypted contents
• Permissioned DHTs or distributed databases, possibility implemented using an Orbit
• FTP server

Management

How are orbits administered? TBD

cc @chunningham