9P, the perfect protocol for the IoT

“Rather than passing JSON over the HTTP layer, let’s take a leap into the past to see what the future might look like. Developed from the late 80s onwards at Bell Labs, the Plan 9 operating system uses the 9P protocol to make the network coherent, secure and transparent – three characteristics that the IoT lacks… This presentation demonstrates the use of the 9P protocol, from the smallest embedded microcontroller to the server farm. We’ll also review lnferno, the virtual machine/operating system that enables distributed collaboration between heterogeneous machines.”