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Gestation?

Gestation?

Posted Nov 29, 2007 14:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Gestation? by ncm
Parent article: Freeing web services with Forkolator

It feels NNTP-like to me. i.e., the right approach to this involves app 
forks talking via some well-defined protocol to each other, which protocol 
can exchange the code of the app itself and flood-fill the other data from 
app to app.

Something like NoCeM could then be used to instantiate a web-of-trust atop 
this layer.

(Design? I don't have anything but a `this feels right', not really.)


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Gestation?

Posted Nov 30, 2007 4:25 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

You don't use NNTP, you use the data structures and stateless synchronization protocols
invented for modern DVCSes.

Gestation?

Posted Nov 30, 2007 8:20 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

They'd serve: they do the flood-fill part as well.

But what we still need is a web-of-trust, so you can ignore nodes and 
everything flowing through them if you want to.

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