Distributed Information System (DIS)

Here is a (long) blog note I would recommend reading : "Snakes on the web" written by Jackob Kaplan-Moss (September 4, 2009). It is a talk given at PyCon Argentina and PyCon Brazil, 2009.

It presents an analysis on the current situation of web edition and desirable future system properties.

My impression, and this is not a coincidence, is that DIS matches most of these requirements since it was designed to address the short comings of the actual systems.