User:Mstone/Higher protocols

From OLPC

[edit] Discovery

As described by our network principles and by other presentations, our peers need a way to know what names are interesting. We propose the following prioritized list of techniques:

typing in a name

This mechanism is the most robust and most amenable to "use by determined humans".

proactive local discovery

See http://cerebro.mit.edu

url-handling

See Network principles.

global techniques

e.g. Facebook integration.

We think this is the right order because we think it serves our most important network scenarios the best.

[edit] Presence

Scott's thought was that peers should run a stripped down jabber server like, say, Twisted Words.

[edit] Health

Networks break regularly and humans need to fix them. In order to do this, humans need measurement tools, a mental model, and some hints about what to look at. Consequently, a middle-level health system might start with the low-level diagnostics and self-test algorithm mentioned above and extend those diagnostics and that algorithm with additional tests based on measuring:

• is there any divergence between what the human has told me is true and what I actually perceive?