ib-AP

ib-AP
Persistent Transmission Transactional Transmission Polling Retrieval Polling Syndication Aggregation Ident–Auth

The internetworked binary Aggregation Protocol, or ib-AP for short, is the fifth subprotocol of the internetworked binary master protocol. It provides mechanisms for performing quantitative aggregation of heavy data, such as histories and transactions, from across various sources on a network such as the Worldwide Web. It is, in this sense, a protocol for creating "distributed consensus" not unlike that in the distributed ledger of a "blockchain". Unlike other distributed ledger systems, it imposes no specific version of data as authentic, nor does it employ any trustless mechanisms of proof, rather leaving the truth of things to the purveyors of the data it aggregates.