OP3FT
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| Type: | SDO Non Profit |
| Industry: | Internet Technologies |
| Founded: | 2012 |
| Headquarters: | 6 square Mozart 75016 Paris |
| Country: | France |
| Employees: | < 100 |
| Website: | OP3FT.org |
| LinkedIn: | OP3FT |
| Twitter: |  @OP3FT
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| Key People | |
| Amaury Grimbert, President and Co-inventor of the Frogans Technology Alexis Tamas, Member of the Board of Directors and Co-inventor of the Frogans Technology | |
The OP3FT is a standards-developing organization (SDO) [1], founded in France in 2012, with a team of 30 people.The Organization for the Promotion, Protection and Progress of Frogans Technology (OP3FT) is a non-profit public-interest organization, whose purpose is to hold, promote, protect and progress the Frogans technology in the form of an open standard for the Internet, available to all users, free of charge. [2][3]
More generally, the OP3FT's purpose is to contribute to the development of a secure and stable Internet that is open to innovation and to support and finance innovative public-interest initiatives or actions of a social, educational or cultural nature in the area of information and communications technologies.
The supporting and financing of these actions, programs or initiatives shall respect the principles of openness and transparency that enable as many people as possible to benefit from the progress made in the area of information and communications technologies.
The Founder is a French company which, since its creation in 1999, has led a project for the development of a new Internet technology, to be released in the form of an open standard, available to all, free of charge. This technology is called the Frogans technology.
As part of its public-interest mission, the OP3FT pursues the following four permanent objectives for the Frogans technology:
Balance the relationship between Frogans site publishers and end users, by protecting end-users' interests, including their privacy, when designing new creative functionalities needed by Frogans site publishers. Ensure that the Frogans technology remains both secure and simple, by carefully reviewing all decisions to be taken at any level as part of the permanent innovation of Frogans as a medium. Develop specifications, implementations and policies as a coherent whole, so as to ensure the stability of Frogans as a medium for all categories of users worldwide (such as end users, content publishers, developers, and hosts). Foster employment, innovation and economic development, by providing all stakeholders, including entrepreneurs, with an open, stable and long-term environment for developing and succeeding in their initiatives on top of the Frogans technology.
Architecture of OP3FT in pictorial representation as follows
For internet users, the Frogans technology is a new means for accessing content and using services in a simpler and more secure way.
A new format for creative content publishing on the Internet From a technical standpoint, the Frogans technology introduces:
- a new type of online content, called Frogans sites
- new software to navigate Frogans sites, called Frogans Player
- new Internet identifiers for Frogans sites, called Frogans addresses
The nature of the files conveying the content of Frogans sites is innocuous.