Re: Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference

[Qiantan Hong]

> But this has 3 main problems.
> 
> 1) On one hand such services require some servers (to work like google
> spreadsheet) and need to be provided somehow... something difficult as I
> don't think gnu or fsf have resources to maintain a service like that
> and provide it.
> 
> 2) On the other hand it will be better if the service is somehow
> distributed in order to give more privacy-security but also to reduce
> the load of the servers... I still can't find any infrastructure we can
> use, cause most of the peer-to-peer libraries are for C++, javascript,
> Node.js and so on (example: webrtc). Just on yesterday I found
> n2n... But I am not a web specialist so it requires a lot of
> experimenting time for me.
> 
> 3) The other workflow (create a local server for others) is the
> "simplest" approach at the moment. But that is a problem for many use
> cases due to dynamic ip addreses, firewalls, opening ports and so on. It
> is fine for a class room or company, but not for working from home.

On this topic, I’m considering supporting sending the traffic over
IRC. Seems that it solves all those problem, what do you guys think?

The process will be that one user create a channel with a random
name, say on freenode.net, then they share the channel name
with other user (maybe via IRC as well!). Others can then join the
channel, and it behaves basically like TCP. To avoid spamming
the same authentication protocol for TCP (to be implemented) can
also work on IRC. The messages from user without authentication
are simply discarded.

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