Re: Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference

[Jean Louis]

Don't complicate, use Gobby editor as example, no IRC, XMPP and other 
networking dependencies please.


On October 6, 2020 1:03:57 AM UTC, Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> wrote:
>> 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.


Jean