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This is a general concept paper. The description of By* provided here represents an overarching conceptual definition and direction statement. It is clear that the intended scope of By* is extremely large--our goal is to establish By* as a new model for delivery of Internet Services, globally.
But we have said nothing about how we will develop the By* services and move towards achieving that goal. That discussion is provided in another document: the Neda Business Plan, titled The By* Family of Libre Services: The future of the Internet Services industry [3]. In that document we describe the roadmap and strategy for continued development and deployment of the By* family of services.
Though the goal is big and ambitious, the implementation is gradual and incremental. We will build the services piece by piece, and move forward a step at a time. The By* services are thus a work in progress, with the planned services in varying stages of development--some in operation, others under active development, and others at concept level only.
For the latest status on each service refer to the most recent version of the Neda Business Plan [3], or refer directly to the website for that service. All services have placeholder websites in place.
As we have described, the model for implementation of By* service functionality is a process of intelligent selection and integration of functional components from the free software creative environment. Virtually all of the initial By* service functionality has been created in this way. The following are some of the basic By* features that have been included in this way: