[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[Toni Alatalo]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Toni Alatalo <address@hidden>   03/02/15 12:04:36

Modified files:
        storm          : article.rst 

Log message:
        finished the unfinished sentence in the revisitation of use cases in 
discussion

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.175&tr2=1.176&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.175 manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.176
--- manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.175 Sat Feb 15 11:59:24 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/article.rst       Sat Feb 15 12:04:36 2003
@@ -1027,9 +1027,10 @@
 id returns a location where the data is currently available. If the
 publisher removes the document permanently, but it is archived elsewhere,
 the archives act as peers similarly. When there is no network connection
-available, but a local copy instead, Storm can find it. If a
+available, but a local copy instead, Storm can find it. Also if a
 document and a link to it are received independently, e.g. as attachments in 
 separate e-mails, or a link to a document in the local intranet is e-mailed, 
+the link works.
 When people meet live, e.g. on a train, and form an ad-hoc network, they are
 able to see each other's public documents and follow links to them if a
 peer-to-peer implementation of Storm is used.
@@ -1039,8 +1040,6 @@
 are transcluded in all the documents that show them (as illustrated in
 figure [ref-figdocmovement]_ in section 3).
  
-.. (all those links work :o .. this was also discussed in intro already 
(index))
-
 *Tracking alternative versions*. Because Storm utilises immutable blocks,
 each modification to a document creates a new block. When a document is
 modified on several independent, unconnected systems, if there are
@@ -1098,7 +1097,7 @@
 A candidate is the object-oriented (web) publishing environment Zope [ref 
zope.org/com, book,
 article?], which is Free Software and stores everything by default as diffs to
 a (flat file) database. Another way is studying the applicability of the 
-open hypermedia protocol (OHP) [refs].
+open hypermedia protocol (OHP) [reich-davis99-ohp].
 
 As mentioned in the presentation of Storm block storage (section 4),
 although the terminology used here is about characters and text, all media
@@ -1106,6 +1105,41 @@
 sizes, as (collections of) blocks, is partly unresolved.
 
 .. [not worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
+   [how does video work here, i.e. are they huge blocks or collections of many
+   small, frames? or a sequence between two keyframes?]
+
+   Benja says: Probably large, but the number of links to them 
+   still won't be that big, I guess. Not sure how to discuss this
+   in the text; feel free to propose something :-)
+
+   Toni: will try.. wondering also about who to consult :o
+
+.. [not worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
+   Future directions: Implement home node model or directory model ?
+
+.. [not worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
+   Open issue: Firewall Transparency/NATs ?
+
+.. [not worth to mention, see above ? -Hermanni]
+   Open issue: other related systems (within gzz?) for e.g. more synchronous
+   collabaration (irc?)?
+
+.. [not worth to mention, first p2p proto then these ;) ? -Hermanni]
+   p2p -> cf half-life of peers (Mojo Nation): Is it desirable that 'weak' 
peers
+   participate in a DHT? -- In Circle, peers must have been online
+   for at least an hour... In which ways, then, can 'weak' peers contribute
+   to the network in a p2p fashion? Caching is certainly one central
+   way, esp. when combined with multisource downloading (this can
+   potentially boost download speeds to the full available bandwidth).
+   This is a performance/reliability issue rather than something
+   changing the fundamental qualities of the network, but still important.
+ 
+.. [not worth to mention ? -Hermanni]  
+   [Symphony supports heterogeneity of peers -Hermanni]
+
+.. [not worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
+=======
+>>>>>>> 1.173
    The important point about p2p publishing is that no account and setup
    is necessary to start publishing.