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EXPLAINER.md

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### Motivation
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The local network is not a first-class citizen of the web. It’s easier for a browser to trust a faraway server than your NAS, TV or thermostat sitting right next to you.
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![motivation](./images/motivation.svg)
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As a blast from the past:
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> Tim Berners-Lee's [vision for the World Wide Web](https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1996/ppf.html) was close to a P2P network [...] The early Internet was more open than the present day, where _two machines connected to the Internet could send packets to each other_ without firewalls and other security measures. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer#Historical_development))

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- [Explainer](EXPLAINER.md)
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- [Specification](https://WICG.github.io/local-peer-to-peer/)
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- [One-Pager](./images/onepager.svg) ([PDF](./images/Local%20Peer-to-Peer%20API%20-%20One-Pager.pdf))
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## Feedback
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