[Commotion-dev] OLSRd plugin for service discovery

[Christian Huldt]

Paul Gardner-Stephen skrev 2013-02-12 01:00:
> Hello,
> 
> This whole idea of locality of information, and value being related to
> proximity to some area is something that we very much agree with.

And that's  why I got  interested in Rhizome

> 
> I think that there are a variety of complementary ways that it can be
> supported by the network.  This TTL concept is a great one. In Serval
> Rhizome, we also have implemented a geobounding box, as well as just
> allowing the natural localised diffusion of bundles to allow
> localisation of information.

The geobounding box is exactly what I  wanted for rss, to have an
alternative for news agencies not to say "this in not important" but to
say "this is important within 10 meters of this locality"

> 
> Paul.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Christian Huldt <christian at solvare.se> wrote:
>> Well, the main point is that some local information is more interesting
>> in the local neighbourhood.
>>
>> My first (in some kind of ordering, probably chronological) idea was an
>> old museum with thick stone walls (namely the Swedish national museum
>> with paintings and sculptures), and one access point per room with a
>> small webserver - advertised by avahi with att TTL of zero hops - with
>> information of the pieces in that particular room.
>>
>> And then - out of annoyance with the seemingly weak community spirit
>> around here - I was thinking of a mesh along some street with lots of
>> tourists payed for by local shop owners hosting their own access point
>> with some presentation/hours/offers advertised by some rather low TTL
>>
>> I think there are quite a few areas where local information has a
>> certain quality, that's why I tried to propose a "radius of interest"
>> parameter to rss version <something> back in the day... (because I would
>> love to zoom into Paris before going there and see local shows,
>> happenings, whatever the week before I go there (went to Amsterdam in
>> the 80's just to find that I missed a Burning Spear concert by one day
>> just because I didn't see the poster in time)
>>
>>
>> Seamus Tuohy skrev 2013-02-11 20:24:
>>> I can't speak for Dan, but i think that exhibitions and museums are
>>> exactly the kind of use cases that would interesting to see for mesh
>>> service advertisement with TTL. Could you expand on your use-cases. I
>>> would be interested in what you have in mind.
>>>
>>>
>>> s2e
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/10/2013 02:20 PM, Christian Huldt wrote:
>>>> Dan Staples skrev 2013-02-10 06:37:
>>>>> I just finished an initial version of a plugin for OLSRd that propagates
>>>>> mDNS/DNS-SD advertisements based on a service's TTL value.
>>>>
>>>> I can see a use-case for this at exhibitions and museums which probably
>>>> is a bit out of line for the original purpose of this project, but could
>>>> perhaps give some more users and hence testing?
>>>>
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