This paper reviews the various technologies which make up the decentralized web movement and classifies them in terms of their responsibilities within an OSI-style conceptual model called DSM: the Decentralized Systems Map.

The desired outcome of this paper is six-fold. (1) To promote collaboration, cooperation, and mutual-understanding between those parties creating decentralized web technologies, (2) to clarify the purpose, statuses, and relationships of decentralized web technologies, (3) to better inform and educate the general public, (4) to obtain a more hollistic understanding of which necessary decentralization components are present and which are missing, (5) to conduct a meta experiment of producing a decentralized, reproducible research document and, above all (6) bringing the decentralized web movement closer to solidarity and to becoming an official w3c working group.

IPFS, Dat, StrongLink, MediaChain, WebTorrents, BitTorent, Bitcoin, Solid