Re: Minutes / Notes

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@yahoo.com>]

It's worth noting though that this is what these p2p applications do, 
it's the core of their development. one could equally argue that 
anykind of ad-hoc mesh protocol work could learn a lot from the p2p 
apps. it's a long way from that to expecting average program to do the 
same things.

simon

On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 04:06 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:

> I heard many say during the multi6 debate that applications cannot 
> possibly handle multiple addresses well. To disprove that, I suggest 
> you take a look at the variations of "swarmcast" implemented by P2P 
> systems such as Kazaa or E-Donkey. These systems are about exchanging 
> files, so they have their own identification system -- file names. The 
> naming system can resolve file names to multiple locations of a file. 
> The transfer system then asks slices of the file from a set of more or 
> less randomly chosen locations.  It automatically adjust to topology 
> by asking more from those locations that serve faster. And it 
> automatically compensate connection losses by just repeating the slice 
> request, or a fraction of it, to some other nodes. Such a system would 
> handle multi-addressing beautifully.
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