DataServers - was:Re: [DotGNU]This Week on the DotGNU mailing list - 8

[Bill Lance]

--- "Gopal.V" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
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Looking at it functionally, I think we are talking
about several different, and perhaps related things.

One: is personal data storage made accessable to the
net.  This is one of the things passport portends to
do.  This data can, of course, be made available by
the users own machine.server, except when they are not
one line.

Two: is a persistant public archival data pool
accessible to both interactive and component
webservices.  Reliability and perminancy must be
greater than any one service provider or company.  (A
version of this may provide special anonimity and
resistance to imposed censorship.) 

Three:  dynamic and commercial specialized data
services.  

The profile of the below graph is different for each. 
Are there other types we needs to address?



>       I would like to clarify a few doubts here. What is
> the 
> actual specifications of the file-sharing app.
> 
>       - should it be P2P ?
>       
>       - anonymity vs Identity ?
>        +---Gnutella   |
>        `---Freenet    `----uServ
>          
>       - locator specified like uServ ?
>               `---eg the ``gopal.<somewhere>.<something>''
> locator
>               
>       - name searchable like Gnutella/Freenet ?
>               `---eg look for a shared file with name ``GNU''
>               
>       - How content replication should take place 
>               +-- Freenet & uServ does this automagically
>         |     |         `-- ?
>         |     `--cache mode replication
>               `- Gnutella does not have this feature
>               
>       - Reliability of Service
>         +--Gnutella    
>         |   ``GOOD''
>         +--Freenet   
>         |   ``SACRIFICED FOR ANONYMITY''
>         `--uServ    
>             ``????''
>             
>     - Who provides the first static peer ?
>     
>     - What happens to the app if uServ is GPL'd ? ;)
>     
>     In the end I would like to mention that I myself
> am confused about 
> the features needed. The above ``diagram'' was a
> hash of ideas about how
> the existing ideas in file-sharing & a bit of my
> own. As far as I could 
> see we need a fork of Freenet code excluding the
> anonymity part.
> 
> Gopal.V
> -- 


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