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Provides a complete description of Neda's business plan and execution strategy.

Provides a complete description of Neda's business plan and execution strategy.

Provides a complete description of Neda's Q1-2001 business plan and execution strategy.

This document is a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list for investors. These are some of the questions most commonly asked by prospective investors, along with our responses.

Traditionally business plans have been highly confidential and quite limited in audience. The business plan itself is generally regarded as secret. However the emergence of free software and open source has opened the model and made the notion of an open business plan possible. An open business plan is a business plan with unlimited audience. The business plan is typically web published and made available to all. In the free software and open source business model, trade secrets, copyright and patents can no longer be used as effective locking mechanisms to provide sustainable advantages to a particular business and therefore a secret business plan is less relevant in those models. While the origin of the open business plan model is in the free software and Libre Services arena, the concept is likely applicable to other domains. In theory, a business plan has many uses and purposes. As a strategic plan it gives the organization its direction, defines priorities, guides allocation of resources, defines goals, objectives, processes and strategies; and identifies and focuses the business on specific markets and revenue sources. In practice most business plans are none of the above. Instead they are purely a tool for fundraising. The dotCon era (late 1990s) demonstrated how business plans can become an agreement document between entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists on how to engage in spin and flip and pump and dump activities. That makes the requirement for the business plan being secret even stronger. In what we believe is a first in the history of business practice, we are publishing our business model in the form of an Open Business Plan. The plan is freely available on our website to be read by anyone. The primary url for Neda's Open Business Plan is: http://www.neda.com/StrategicVision/BusinessPlan Our business model of not using the locking mechanisms of trade secrets, copyright and patents plus the notion of an open business plan is very difficult to digest for Venture Capitalists. Yet, the scope and scale of what we are trying to do requires facilitation of external participation including capital investment. Our engagement with Venture Capitalists typically starts here: http://www.neda.com/StrategicVision/Participating/Investment/StartHere Insisting on this honest and transparent model has come at a price. We point with pride to the fact of having been thrown out of the offices of some of the most prestigious high-technology venture capital companies in the Pacific Northwest. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the model that we have been following and the lessons we have learned from interacting with VCs. We believe that open source software engineers are best positioned to pave the way towards making widespread the concept of open business plans. We highly encourage those wishing to attend this presentation to page through this example open business plan.

Provides a description of Neda's ByStar Libre Texting business plan and execution strategy.

This paper describes the deployment of the By* services as the new model for delivery of Internet Services, planet-wide.

BLEE is the primary user environment for ByStar Autonomous Libre Services.

In this paper we introduce concepts needed to encourage more businesses to transition into the For-Profit and Non-Proprietary Quadrant.

Announcing Persian Input Methods.

Announcing PersoArabic With Emacs24.

Announcing: Introducing Halaal Into Globish.

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This article analyzes the efficiency characteristics of EMSD and comparing its efficiency to other e-mail protocols.

This article provides a technical description which describing the architecture and implementation of EMSD on Windows CE devices.

This article provides a description of how equivalent functionality to the closed BlackBerry mobile messaging solution can be implemented based on a completely open model, using existing open-source software implementations of LEAP, and existing off-the-shelf hardware components.

This article provides a technical description which describing the architecture and implementation of LEAP in JAVA.

This article provides a technical description which describing the architecture and implementation of LEAP on Palm OS devices.

This article is a follow-on to our previous article "The WAP Trap." It describes how XHTML and LEAP can render WAP irrelevant. It then deals with what to do with what is left of WAP. This paper too, is likely to cause considerable controversy.

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This article provides a detailed criticism of a set of specifications called the Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP. This article demonstrates that WAP is entirely unfit to play the role of a Mobile Messaging industry standard.

This article has been translated into French. The French translation is available as PLPC-100015.

Au-delà de ses failles techniques et de procédure, nous pensons que le WAP représente une erreur fondamentale de conception de ce qui peut être réalisé en utilisant des téléphones cellulaires, et de ce que les utilisateurs vont vraiment vouloir faire avec leurs téléphones.

La messagerie mobile et la recherche de l'Internet mobile représentent deux formes très différentes d'activité de communications. La messagerie mobile signifie une possibilité d'envoyer et de recevoir des messages personnels, tandis que la recherche de l'Internet signifie une récupération d'information d'où que ce soit.

This article provides a description of how WhiteBerry and Bluetooth can be used in combination to bring new and enhanced messaging capabilities to the mobile professional.

This article provides an analysis of the factors which lead to the success or failure of protocols, including discussions of several historical case studies.

This article provides a description of our strategy for encouraging widespread usage of the LEAP protocols, including the distribution of open-source software implementations of the protocols, and the availability of free subscriber services.

This article provides a technical description of ESRO, the transport mechanism component of LEAP.

This article provides a description of the planned future development of LEAP, including descriptions of several LEAP-based products and services which are currently under development.

This article provides a general overview description of the LEAP protocols.

This article provides a technical description which describing the architecture and implementation of LEAP on Linux Based PDAs.

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This article provides a technical description of EMSD, the e-mail component of LEAP.

This article provides a description of how WhiteBerry and WiFi++ can be used in combination to bring new and enhanced messaging capabilities to the mobile professional.

Libre Services are an extension of the principles of free software into the Internet services domain. They are Internet services that can be freely copied and reused by anyone. Any company or organization can reproduce and host any Libre Service, either for its own use, or for commercial or non-commercial delivery to others. The Libre Services model exists in relation to the proprietary Internet services model of AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google, in an analogous way to how GNU/Linux exists in relation to Microsoft Windows.

In essence, the Libre Services model represents a proposed definition of the free software ideology within the services domain. We have articulated the Libre model fully in the form of an industry paper titled, "Libre Services: a non-proprietary model for delivery of Internet services," available online at http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100101.

The interested reader can choose to read more, or less, than this defining paper. For the reader wishing to read less, the key ideas are summarized in the form of a brief Executive Summary.

And for the reader wishing to read more, the Libre concept paper is itself part of a larger set of papers collectively called the "Libre Services Manifesto," describing every aspect of the Libre model, including a project-based model for collaborative participation and bootstrapping. The full manifesto is available at http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100105.

This article describes the Libre Services concept, and how we intend to turn it into a reality.

This paper defines a set of projects representing the major stages of work required for bootstrapping the Libre Services industry into existence.

A presentation of Libre Services Concept

Libre Services are an extension of the principles of free software into the Internet services domain. They are Internet services that can be freely copied and reused by anyone. Any company or organization can reproduce and host any Libre Service, either for its own use, or for commercial or non-commercial delivery to others. The Libre Services model exists in relation to the proprietary Internet services model of AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google, in an analogous way to how GNU/Linux exists in relation to Microsoft Windows.

In essence, the Libre Services model represents a proposed definition of the free software ideology within the services domain. We have articulated the Libre model fully in the form of an industry paper titled, "Libre Services: a non-proprietary model for delivery of Internet services," available online at http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100101.

The interested reader can choose to read more, or less, than this defining paper. For the reader wishing to read less, the key ideas are summarized in the form of a brief Executive Summary.

And for the reader wishing to read more, the Libre concept paper is itself part of a larger set of papers collectively called the "Libre Services Manifesto," describing every aspect of the Libre model, including a project-based model for collaborative participation and bootstrapping. The full manifesto is available at http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100105.

Author's Patent Free Statement for RFC-2188

Author's Patent Free Statement for RFC-2524

This document facilitates writing in Persian with Emacs. Emacs is the ultimate multilingual customizable editor centered user environment. Emacs is the base for By*'s choice of user environment in the Halaal/Convivial quadrant. Multiple Persian input methods are part of the emacs distribution. This document provides complete information for these input methods.

Emacs comes with two built-in Persian input methods:

farsi-isiri-9149:

A Persian keyboard based on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ISIRI-9147 specification.

farsi-transliterate-banan:

An intuitive transliteration keyboard for Farsi.

The ISIRI-9147 Persian keyboard is not well suited to Iranian expatriates living in the West. Persian-speaking expatriates are usually already completely familiar and accustomed to the standard qwerty keyboard, and they don’t want to have to learn and adapt to ISIRI-9147. Rather, they expect software to adapt to them.

This is what “Banan Multi-Character (Reverse) Transliteration Persian Input Method” – accomplishes.

Consider that we want to write:

حالا، با نرم افزار حلال میتوانیم به فارسی سالم بنویسیم.

Note that we are not writing in pinglish. Ignore the vowels and think of the Persian writing above letter-by-letter.
Now type:

Hala, ba nrm afzar Hlal mitvanim bh farsi salm bnvisim.

It is as simple as that.

Full conformance to ISIRI-6219 is demonstrated by use of the character mapping tables enumerated in ISIRI-6219.

Based on this effort, various suggestions for improving ISIRI-9147 and ISIRI-6219 are included in this document.

Emacs comes with a rich mail reader, a personal planner, an address book, a calendar, spell checkers for English and Persian, multi-lingual dictionary interfaces and many other tools and packages; all integrated together. Because Emacs supports Persian, all these tools and packages also support Persian.

Most Iranians today use Microsoft Windows products such as MS Word and MS PowerPoint in the Haraam/Industrial quadrant. Microsoft Windows is closed, proprietary software made by an American corporation.

Our goal is to enable and encourage the transition of Iranians from the proprietary Microsoft Windows products in the Haraam/Industrial quadrant, to the far superior Emacs in the Halaal/Convivial quadrant.

This document provides enough information to enable anyone to obtain Emacs and begin using it as her/his Persian user environment.

The Halaal/Libre ByStar Digital Ecosystem is presented as a moral alternative to the Proprietary American Digital Ecosystem.

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In this document we properly introduce into Globish the concepts of Abstract Halaal and Abstract Haraam.

In the domain of morality, ethics and philosophy, English is extremely weak. Fundamental concepts from other cultures such as Halaal and Haraam are entirely absent from English. And previous attempts to translate these terms into English have been miserable failures. This is because these are complex concepts that do not exist within the value system of the Americans and British.

Most broadly speaking, the word halaal حلال is a facility for expressing general moral sensibilities which map to ``right.'' The word haraam حرام is a facility for expressing general moral sensibilities which map to ``wrong.''

We build the above formulation based on a framework for moral philosophy in the abstract that is presented in this document.

Our primary purpose in doing so is to use these terms in the context of ``halaal software'' and ``halaal Internet services.''

The nature of poly-existentials as the basis for abolishment of the Western so-called intellectual property rights regime.

In this paper we look into what are the requirements and characteristics of manner of existance of Software such that it can be labeled Halaal Software and what are the requirements and characteristics of manner of existance of Internet Application Services such that it can be labeled Halaal Internet Application Services.

حلال و حرام براى نرم افزار.

This paper describes the deployment of the By* services as the new model for delivery of Internet Services, planet-wide.

This document describes the long-term strategic vision for Neda's By* family of Libre Services. Additionaly it creates a framework for cooperative exection of that vision.

As By* Libre Services are copyleft and patent-free, the entire concept is positioned as an instance example for operation in the for-profit non-proprietary quadrant.

Our vision and plans are lofty, ambitious and extensive. We have spent considerable effort articulating our vision and inviting participation of others. All in one place our full vision as a collection of articles is publicly available in this document.

The basic underlying principles of our vision are these:

• The correct model for software is the Free Software model
• The correct model for Internet Services is the Libre Services model
• The correct model for a coherent set of Libre Services is the By* unified model

By "correct" we mean that these models bring far greater benefits than their proprietary counterparts. The benefits we speak of are not a set of abstract idealizations, conceived without reference to the practical realities of the world. The Free and Libre models bring real and practical benefits to all relevant constituencies, including societal, engineering, and business.

The Free Software model is now well established as a viable reality, and is being energetically moved forward by others. Our strategic vision concerns the second underlying principle: the Libre Services model. Our goal is to establish Libre Services as a viable model for delivery of Internet Services, and eventually as the dominant model, worldwide.

The realization of this ambition has two major dimensions: public, and private.

• The public dimension. In contrast to the proprietary services model, Libre Services are a commnunal public resource, not owned by anyone, freely available for use by society at large. Development and promotion of the general Libre Services model must therefore take place in a non-commercial, public context. The general Libre Services movement is being led by the Free Protocols Foundation (FPF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the maintenance of patent-free protocols and software. For more information visit the FPF website at: http://www.freeprotocols.org/
• The private dimension. If Libre Services are to come into widespread usage they must be operated, delivered and supported for end users. In practical terms, this is something that must be done by service providers in a private, commercial context. Somewhere in all this there must be a business model that supports delivery of Libre Services to individual users.

  Neda Communications, Inc. is exercising leadership in the commercial arena. We have formulated an appropriate business model, and we are the first company to deploy and operate Libre Services in a commercial context. For more information visit the Neda website at: http://www.neda.com/

The public dimension of this initiative is fully described in a document called the Libre Services Manifesto, written and published by the FPF. This document is available at: http://www.libreservices.org/

The present document, titled Neda Strategic Direction Statement, provides a complete description of Neda's long-term business direction and strategy. Our strategy is based fundamentally on the Libre Services model, and therefore a complete understanding of our strategy also requires a complete understanding of the Libre Services model. This document therefore includes the Libre Services Manifesto as a subset. This document also includes a description of the commercial constructs Neda has built on top of the Libre Services model. Our goal is to provide in a single document everthing required to understand what we are doing.

This proposal presents a strategy for a Network Service Provider to rapidly extend its service offering to include comprehensive Layer 7 capabilities and is directed towards any provider of network-oriented services.

This document is intended to provide a description the engineering and developmental models for Libre Services.

This document is intended to provide a
description of the general operational requirements for deployed Libre Services.

This document is intended to provide the engineering release notes necessary to recreate By*-equivalent services based on the By* Libre Engines.

ByStar Libre Texting provides the equivalent of phone companies texting services and Blackberry mobile messaging based on Free Software, Public Spectrum, Open Devices and Libre Services.

We build on the concept of Libre Texting and our existing ByStar Libre Services capabilities to deliver ByStar Libre Texting as an end-to-end Internet service.

This presentation document describes Libre Texting, a completely non-proprietary implementation of mobile texting.

Existing mobile texting implementations (telephony SMS, and mobile email solutions such as BlackBerry) are walled-garden implementations, closely protected by patents, copyright, trade secrecy, and proprietary protocols.

By contrast Libre Texting is implemented using public wireless spectrum, open networks, off-the-shelf generic hardware components, patent-free protocols, and 100% free software. The result is a mobile texting solution with no closed or proprietary dependencies. It can be implemented by any company or organization immediately, either for in-house use, or for commercial delivery to end users.

In addition to being a stand-alone application, Libre Texting is also part of something much bigger: it is the tactical spearhead for introduction of the By* Libre Services.

In this presentation we provide an analysis of the mobile texting medium, and enumerate all the components necessary to implement this as a truly Libre solution. These include: public wireless spectrum, wireless Internet, patent-free efficient texting protocols, open texting devices, free device software, and matching Internet service software. All these components exist and are in place today.

We have implemented a Libre solution using a Linux PDA (Nokia 810), local WiFi for wireless device connectivity, and our own Libre Texting message center. The result is complete, end-to-end Libre Texting functionality. In situations where local WiFi is not available, we use MURS public wireless spectrum for wide area connectivity. During the presentation we provide a live demonstration.

The following documents provide additional information related to this presentation.

Libre Texting Concept

• Operation Whiteberry PLPC-100006
• Libre Texting with WiFi++ PLPC-100027

Libre Texting Protocols

• EMSD RFC-2524
• ESRO RFC-2188
• LEAP Manifesto PLPC-100012

Libre Services

• The Libre Services Concept PLPC-100101
• Libre Services Manifesto PLPC-100105

ByStar Libre Services

• The ByStar Concept PLPC-110001
• By* Libre Services: Full Documentation Set PLPC-110004

Engineering

• Software in source form http://www.bysource.org
• Software in binary form http://www.bybinary.org

Participation

• Neda Open Business Plan The By* Libre Services: The future of the Internet Services industry.
• ByStar for ISPs: Unsolicited Proposal PLPC-110005
• Libre Services: Projects for Bootstrapping PLPC-100103

This presentation document describes the deployment of By* Libre Services as a new model for delivery of Internet Services. The presentation covers three major topics:

1. The Libre Services model
   Libre Services is a non-proprietary model for delivery of Internet services. Libre Services are an extension of the principles of free software into the Internet services domain. They are Internet services that can be freely copied and reused by anyone. Any company or organization can reproduce and host any Libre Service, either for its own use, or for commercial or non-commercial delivery to others. The Libre Services model exists in relation to the proprietary Internet services model of AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google, in an analogous way to how GNU/Linux exists in relation to Microsoft Windows.

   A detailed description of the Libre concept is provided in the document titled, Libre Services: A non-proprietary model for delivery of Internet services, available at:
   http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100105

2. The By* Services model
   Libre Services is a development and deployment model, but it says nothing about service functionality. By* (pronounced "by-star") is a specific implementation of the Libre model. By* is a unified services model, unifying and making consistent a large number of services that today exist in functional isolation. It is a coherent, integrated family of services, providing the user with a comprehensive, all-encompassing Internet experience.

   The By* family presently includes ByName, ByAlias, ByMemory and BySMB/ForSMB. In the works and coming soon are additional services for individuals (ByFamily, ByNumber), services for personal and business interaction (ByWhere, ByEvent, ByTopic, ByInteraction, ByLookup, ByHookup), and software distribution services (BySource, ByBinary).

   The By* services are based on 100% free software and patent-free protocols, and are thus completely transparent and reproducible by anyone. They are a communal public resource, not owned by anyone, freely available for use by society at large.

   A complete description of By* is provided in the document titled, The By* Concept: A Unified Model for Internet Services, available at:
   http://www.neda.com/PLPC/110001

3. The business model
   Though the Libre Services model is non-proprietary, in practical terms service deployment must remain largely within the for-profit sector.

   The Libre deployment model represents a radical shift of the Internet Services industry from the for-profit, proprietary quadrant, to the for-profit, non-proprietary quadrant. In this space the entire software for an Internet service remains a communal public resource in the trust of the engineering profession, while service deployment is driven forward by the full force of for-profit commercial motivations.

   Therefore an essential component of the Libre deployment model is its commercial dimension. A coherent business model is required to motivate service deployment by commercial service providers. A complete description of the business model is provided in the form of an Open Business Plan titled, The By* Family of Libre Services: The future of the Internet Services industry, available at:
   http://www.neda.com/StrategicVision/BusinessPlan

This document describes Libre Texting, a completely non-proprietary implementation of mobile texting.

Existing mobile texting implementations (telephony SMS, and mobile email solutions such as BlackBerry) are walled-garden implementations, closely protected by patents, copyright, trade secrecy, and proprietary protocols.

By contrast Libre Texting is implemented using public wireless spectrum, open networks, off-the-shelf generic hardware components, patent-free protocols, and 100% free software. The result is a mobile texting solution with no closed or proprietary dependencies. It can be implemented by any company or organization immediately, either for in-house use, or for commercial delivery to end users.

In addition to being a stand-alone application, Libre Texting is also part of something much bigger: it is the tactical spearhead for introduction of the By* Libre Services.

In this we provide an analysis of the mobile texting medium, and enumerate all the components necessary to implement this as a truly Libre solution. These include: public wireless spectrum, wireless Internet, patent-free efficient texting protocols, open texting devices, free device software, and matching Internet service software. All these components exist and are in place today.

We have implemented a Libre solution using a Linux PDA (Nokia 810), local WiFi for wireless device connectivity, and our own Libre Texting message center. The result is complete, end-to-end Libre Texting functionality. In situations where local WiFi is not available, we use MURS public wireless spectrum for wide area connectivity.

This project proposes Libre Texting: a new incarnation of the Mobile Email/Wireless Texting (henceforth ``Texting'') medium, based on the Free Software ideology. Today the Texting industry is dominated by the proprietary, walled garden model. Libre Texting aims to provide equivalent functionality to existing proprietary Texting solutions such as BlackBerry, but (a) based entirely on patent-free protocols and free software, (b) using any mobile Internet device, (c) wherever any type of wireless Internet connectivity is available. The proposed approach comprises five elements: (1) the inherent propagative power of the Free Software and end-to-end models, (2) an overlay network architecture, (3) a new set of messaging protocols, (4) a novel software architecture for Message Transfer Agent integration, and (5) a new software architecture for multiform device integration, based on Device-Resident End-MTA middleware. The proposed technology is highly synergistic with current industry dynamics, including: burgeoning recognition of the power of FOSS, ready availability of Linux-based mobile devices, and widespread Wi-Fi availability. Existing email protocols lack push-mode delivery, and bandwidth and power efficiency; the proposed new protocol profile corrects these shortcomings. The proposed research is to determine feasibility of all critical elements of this approach at large scale.

This document is a case study of NSF SBIR proposal number 0946146, titled "Libre Texting: A Reshaping of the Medium."

The proposal was submitted by Neda Communications, Inc. to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on June 9, 2009. The proposal was declined by the NSF. We received notification of this decision, along with the review comments, on November 02, 2009.

We examined the NSF review comments closely, subjecting them to our own internal analysis and discussion. Our conclusion is that they are almost entirely incorrect, representing a near-total lack of understanding by the reviewers of the substance of the proposal. Based on this and our subsequent interactions with the NSF, we also believe there are serious process issues regarding NSF evaluation of non-proprietary SBIR proposals such as ours.

We have established this case study to enable open consideration and discussion of these issues. The case study documents the entire trajectory of our proposal, from its initial submission through to its ultimate disposition. In particular, the case study includes our own counter-analysis of the NSF review comments. Here we provide point-by-point identification and clarification of the many technical errors and misstatements contained within the review comments.

The case study also includes references and pointers to all other relevant materials, including the original SBIR proposal, and the NSF review comments. These materials are web published and freely available online for examination by anyone.

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By* User's Guide.

This document applies to the genesis process for ByStar Libre Platform.

Notes and instructions for common use of Windows XP at Neda.

This document provides an overview of Neda's Consulting Services.

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This document describes the Open C Platform Library, a utility which aids in the consistency of portable implementation of data communications software.

This document describes the Application Programming Interface for Efficient Short Remote Operation Services (ESROS). The ESRO Protocol is specified in RFC-2188.

This document provides details on the programming development environment of Neda's source code of ESROS (Efficient Short Remote Operation Services) protocols. It will document the design of the system and the code written to implement those protocols.

The scope of this document is the protocols of Efficient Short Remote Operation Services as specified in RFC-2188.

This document explains the details of design and implementation of Neda Reference Implementation of Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery Protocol which conforms to the EMSD Protocol Specifications. Documentation for ESROS (Efficient Short Remote Operation Services) is excluded from this document.

This document is prepared for designers and developers of messaging systems that conform to EMSD Protocol Specifications as specified in RFC-2524.

This document describes the design and implementation of EMSD-UA.

This document describes the design and implementation of PINE-EMSD user agent.

EOE Design and Implementation Notes.

BBDB Filters is a collection of tools that enhances BBDB and further integrates it with the email system, latex, hylafax, PDAs, etc.

An Overview and an engineering description of LSIP (Libre Services Integration Platform).

ByEntity (the Libre Engine of ByStar) design and implementation notes.

Neda Libre Email Appliance is based on Debian and qmail++ as a coherent family of adopted LSIP components.

Neda Libre Appliances can be used as:

• Ready to run Software. To be installed by the user.
• Pre-Configured Servers. Ready to be plugged in. See http://store.neda.com
• Ready to use ByStar Internet Application Services.
• As part of a Libre Service Engine.

Neda Libre Fax Appliance is based on Debian Hylafax as an adopted LSIP component.

Libre Content Publication Facilities.

This document specifies the service model, the notation and protocol for Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO). The ESRO service is similar to and is consistent with other Remote Procedure Call services. The emphasis of ESRO service definition and the ESRO protocol is on efficiency. ESRO is designed specifically with wireless network (e.g., CDPD) usage in mind.

This document specifies the protocol and format encodings for Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery (EMSD). EMSD is a messaging protocol that is highly optimized for submission and delivery of short Internet mail messages. EMSD is designed to be a companion to existing Internet mail protocols.

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This is a record of the presentation made at Seattle University on November 9, 2006.

This is a record of the presentation made at LinuxFest Northwest 2007, on Saturday April 28, 2007. The presentation was made at Bellingham Technical College, in room G-103 at 3:00 p.m.

This is a record of the presentation made at the Seattle Perl Users Group (SPUG) in downtown Seattle on May 15, 2007.

Libre Services are an extension of the principles of free software into the domain of Internet services. The By* Family of Libre Services is a unified and non-proprietary set of Internet Application Services, for both individuals and businesses. By* Libre Services are based on 100% free software, which any company or organization can freely reproduce. This high-level overview presentation discusses this new services model from an engineering, societal and business perspective.

This document is the transcript of our public email titled, "Libre Texting: A Reshaping of the Medium." Starting on May 11, 2009, and on subsequent dates, this email has been sent to multiple recipients. This email is part of our campaign to publicize and promote the Libre Texting concept, and is open to readership by anyone. Please feel free to forward this transcript to others who may be interested.

This communication records relate to publications of RFC-2188 between the RFC Editor, the IESG and the Author.

Communication Records with IESG with Respect to Putting RFC-2188 on Standard Track.

Communication Records Relating to RFC-2524.

This document is an independent due diligence evaluation report of Neda’s Operation WhiteBerry initiative, commissioned by Greg Amadon and conducted by Martin Haeberli in January 2003.

This document is the transcript of our email titled, In tune with the chuckle factor—Neda's By* Libre Services—Open Business Plan. This email has been sent out to multiple qualified investors and qualified investor groups, nationwide.

The material in this email transcript is part of a model for securing private, as opposed to public, investment. The material in this transcript does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase.

If you are not a venture capitalist, angel investor, or otherwise qualified investor, please disregard this email transcript.

This document is the transcript of our public email titled, "Libre Services: free software ideology for Internet services." Starting on March 31, 2009, and on subsequent dates, this email has been sent to multiple recipients. This email is part of our campaign to publicize and promote the Libre Services concept, and is open to readership by anyone. Please feel free to forward this transcript to others who may be interested.

This document is the transcript of our email titled, "Our Internet engineering responsibility: my mailings and you." We typically send this as an introductory email to a new recipient we are adding to our email distribution list.

This document is the transcript of a Small Business Innovation Program (SBIR) proposal, submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Neda Communications, Inc. on June 9, 2009.

The proposal describes Libre Texting, a new incarnation of the Mobile Email/Wireless Texting (henceforth just "Texting") medium, based on the Free Software ideology. Today the Texting industry is dominated by the proprietary, walled garden model. The goal of Libre Texting is to provide equivalent functionality to existing proprietary Texting solutions such as BlackBerry, but (a) based entirely on patent-free protocols and free software, (b) using any mobile Internet device, and (c) wherever any type of wireless Internet connectivity is available. The proposed approach comprises five elements:

1. The inherent propagative power of the Free Software and end-to-end models
2. An overlay network architecture
3. A new set of messaging protocols
4. A novel software architecture for Message Transfer Agent integration
5. A new software architecture for multiform device integration, based on Device-Resident End-MTA middleware

The proposed technology is highly synergistic with current industry dynamics, including: burgeoning recognition of the power of FOSS, ready availability of Linux-based mobile devices, and widespread Wi-Fi availability. Existing email protocols lack push-mode delivery, and bandwidth and power efficiency; the proposed new protocol profile corrects these shortcomings. The proposed research is to determine feasibility of all critical elements of this approach at large scale.

This document is a record of the review comments received in response to a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal we submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF).

On June 9, 2009 we submitted SBIR proposal number 0946146, titled "Libre Texting: A Reshaping of the Medium." The proposal was declined by the NSF. We received notification of this decision, along with the review comments, on November 02, 2009. The present document records the review comments as taken verbatim from the NSF FastLane system.

We examined the NSF review comments closely, subjecting them to our own internal analysis and discussion. Our conclusion is that they are almost entirely incorrect, representing a near-total lack of understanding by the reviewers of the substance of the proposal. Complete details of our analysis of the review comments are provided in a separate document titled, "A Live Case Study for NSF SBIR Proposal No. 0946146," available online at http://www.neda.com/PLPC/110016.

The proposal as originally submitted is also available online at http://www.neda.com/Records/200906091

This document is the transcript of a Small Business Innovation Program (SBIR) proposal, submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Neda Communications, Inc. on December 3, 2009.

The proposal describes Libre Texting, a new incarnation of the Mobile Email/Wireless Texting (henceforth just "Texting") medium, based on the Free Software ideology. Today the Texting industry is dominated by the proprietary, walled garden model. The goal of Libre Texting is to provide equivalent functionality to existing proprietary Texting solutions such as BlackBerry, but (a) based entirely on patent-free protocols and free software, (b) using any mobile Internet device, and (c) wherever any type of wireless Internet connectivity is available. The proposed approach comprises five elements:

1. The inherent propagative power of the Free Software and end-to-end models
2. An overlay network architecture
3. A new set of messaging protocols
4. A novel software architecture for Message Transfer Agent integration
5. A new software architecture for multiform device integration, based on Device-Resident End-MTA middleware

The proposed technology is highly synergistic with current industry dynamics, including: burgeoning recognition of the power of FOSS, ready availability of Linux-based mobile devices, and widespread Wi-Fi availability. Existing email protocols lack push-mode delivery, and bandwidth and power efficiency; the proposed new protocol profile corrects these shortcomings. The proposed research is to determine feasibility of all critical elements of this approach at large scale.

Emacs is far more than just an editor. Viewing Emacs as an Editor Centered User Environment is only the beginning of recognizing its power. Beyond a user environment, we have been using Emacs as Software-Service Integration Framework for many years. We are now in the process of packaging the entire environment as the ultimate User Environment For the Software-Service Continum. This package we call BLEE. The By* Libre Emacs Environment. Blee goes beyond Emacs by fully integrating Emacs and Firefox/Iceweasel and all of Linux apps underneath it. BLEE features include: – Emacs <—-> Firefox (two way integration) – Inside of Firefox: edit everything through Emacs, Send emails using Emacs+Gnus, … – Inside of Emacs: write html and view it in native firefox in realtime, View all your Gnus email messages in full html in firefox, … Think of Emacs and Firefox as joint sisters. They are all you need. – Incredible Email capabilities Built on top of Gnus. Awsome Multi-Mailbox and Multi-Address support provided with ByStar. Great Anti-Spam capabilities, Search Capabilities, Scoring based on full integration with the address book. Mailing lists access through News with Gmane. – Organizational Tools the likes of which exists no where else: Address Book: bbdb (Big Brother DataBase), Calendar/Diary, Org Mode: To Do Lists, Worklogs, Dynamic Blocks, – Full Integration With dict (Multi-Lingual Dictionaries, Thesarus, …), Powerfull templating systems and Abbreviations. – Fully Multi-Lingual (m17n). Emacs 24 now includes bidi (bidirectional editing). That means in addition to Latin being native, now Perso-Arabic script is also native emacs. – Of course, Music (emms) and tons of games. And all of this we will show you. This talk will for the most part be interactive demos.

Libre Services are an extension of the principles of free software into the Internet services domain. They are Internet services that can be freely copied and reused by anyone. The Libre Services model exists in relation to the proprietary Internet services model of Facebook, Youtube, MSN, Yahoo and Google, in an analogous way to how GNU/Linux exists in relation to Microsoft Windows. The concept of “Autonomous Libre Services” focuses on preserving privacy by providing control over information to users with safe guards of functional transparency, information portability and non-retention controls. The concept of “Federation of Libre Services” focuses on interactions amongst Autonomous Libre Services and faciltation of information aggregation amongst Libre Services. Beyond ideology, we are building real-world implementations, deployment and usage in the form of ByStar Federations of Autonomous Libre Services.

BBDB Filters Package is a collection of filters and is called "BBDB Input and Output Filters". They are a family of filters that convert the information in BBDB to and from a variety of other formats. "Output filters" export BBDB information to other formats while "input filters" import information from other formats into BBDB.

ByStar Libre Services Engine provides necessary software for implementation of ByStar Services.

Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery - Server Agent (EMSD-SA) is a full implementation of RFC-2524.

Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery - User Agent (EMSD-UA) is a full implementation of RFC-2524. The EMSD User Agent is composed of a number of cooperating modules. Some modules cooperate by one module calling functions in another module as needed. Other modules cooperate via a call-back methodology where functions in one module are registered with another module, so that when a particular event or action occurs, the registered function will be called.

Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO) is a complete implementation of RFC-2188. ESRO provides reliable connectionless remote operation services on top of UDP (or any other non-reliable connectionless transport service) with minimum overhead ESRO protocol supports segmentation and reassembly, concatenation and separation as well as multiplexing for service users (applications).

LSIP (Libre Services Integration Platform) are a set of tools on top of which various consistent polices can be implemented. This is a collection tools that collectively lets you consistently manage Unix and Linux systems and some of the tools will also manage Windows system.

Open C Platform (OCP) is a set of well defined interfaces and service definitions for basic facilities needed for implementation of lower layer OSI protocol in C. Independent implementations of OSI protocols that adhere to Open C Environment (OCE) can easily be integrated to realize real open systems.

Voice Response Development Environment (VoRDE) provides a convinient environment for developing and managing Voice Response application. It is a collection of generalized commands, voice programming tools, software libraries, and related publications.