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Revision as of 14:20, 18 July 2009
Higher Protocols
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.
Presence
Scott's thought was that peers should run a stripped down jabber server like, say, Twisted Words.
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?