[Commotion-dev] interesting tech offer from IRC

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

Hi!

Was it tested in any larger network ? I.e. at least a couple of hundred nodes?

A.

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On 15.12.2011, at 20:01, Josh King <josh at chambana.net> wrote:

> Hey Paul,
> 
> This is really interesting! Runesadvice, pleased to make your
> acquaintance. My name is Josh King, I'm the Commotion project's
> technical lead. Some of the issues mentioned are ones that we have
> approaches for, but our project isn't tied to any one strategy. Could
> you elaborate a bit on your protocol and how it approaches some of the
> problems you mentioned? I'm sure we would be interested in hearing more,
> and perhaps we could share some of our thoughts. Thanks!
> 
> On 12/15/2011 01:12 PM, Paul Bame wrote:
>> Guessing most folks missed this generous offer in IRC, but it may be worth
>> someone (probably not me) following up on:
>> 
>> (09:49:53 AM) runesadvice: Good morning.  Anyone awake?
>> (11:26:56 AM) runesadvice: Checking in again: anyone awake?
>> (11:28:41 AM) paulbame: runesadvice: maybe ask your question?  someone may answer, or may answer later (several folks run caching irc proxies I think)
>> (11:31:09 AM) runesadvice: All right.
>> (11:31:38 AM) runesadvice: Many moons ago I grew up on the fringes of the third world, and was driven by the environment ...
>> (11:32:12 AM) runesadvice: ... to examine how one might get bandwidth and access made available without ...
>> (11:32:24 AM) runesadvice: ... substantial exposure to network outages, or government interference.
>> (11:32:50 AM) runesadvice: I ended up developing a protocol which was self-organising, and failure resilient.
>> (11:33:20 AM) runesadvice: It explicitly eschewed centralised systems, and even human interaction insofar possible.
>> (11:33:35 AM) runesadvice: Now you guys may have all solved all these things for yourselves - I don't know.
>> (11:34:01 AM) runesadvice: But on the offchance that someone felt this might be an unsolved problem ...
>> (11:34:20 AM) runesadvice: ... whether owing to computational limits, coordination difficulties or whatever ...
>> (11:34:33 AM) runesadvice: ... I felt that I should make the offer, even though I'm in the first world now.
>> (11:39:31 AM) runesadvice: Component problems I solved, for the record:  Unique ID, MITM attacks ...
>> (11:40:21 AM) runesadvice: routing, spoofing, throttling, load balancing.
>> (11:40:32 AM) runesadvice: Oh, and naming.
>> (12:19:32 PM) runesadvice: So I guess the question is: do y'all care?  Or want to know more?
>> (12:59:04 PM) bcduggan [~bcduggan at 64.124.162.98] entered the room.
>> (01:07:30 PM) paulbame: runesadvice: I think the answer is that folks would like to know more, and this isn't a real good way to reach them unfortunately.  I'll paste your intro into an email to the list and cc you if you want to share your email address  ?
>> (01:11:04 PM) runesadvice: OK, sure.  advice at csmctmto.bizfu.net
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