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Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp |
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Wed, 10 May 2017 20:43:00 -0400 |
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> An interesting point. There's a whole body of work in "Disruption
> Tolerant Networking" to send packets (which they call bundles) from a
> node to another node, without assuming e2e connectivity. But, I am not
> aware of routing that really works in the general case. There is
> definitely a tradeoff of reliability vs how much you replicate.
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4838
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5050
>
> But, I think what you are suggesitng is simpler, because it's about
> replicas in the connected subset, not the full disconnected case.
Right, I wasn't thinking of dealing with partitioning. Not sure if
partitioning is important to handle, nor even if it makes things
really harder.
Anyway, I have a feeling we're fairly offtopic by now.
Stefan
- [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/09
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, vwf, 2017/05/09
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Guillaume Roguez, 2017/05/09
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/09
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Guillaume Roguez, 2017/05/09
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/10
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Greg Troxel, 2017/05/10
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/10
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Greg Troxel, 2017/05/10
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Adonay Felipe Nogueira, 2017/05/09
- Re: [Ring] GNU Ring to replace SMS/Whatsapp, Guillaume Roguez, 2017/05/09