Re: Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference

[Karl Fogel]

On 06 Oct 2020, Qiantan Hong wrote:
>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.

That's an interesting idea!

But do you intend to keep the "no server" option available too?  That is, for 
people whose network firewalls allow it, will it always be possible to just run 
crdt.el with one of the Emacsen acting as server itself?

Best regards,
-Karl

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