Hi, I was looking at draft-ciavaglia-anima-coordination, and noticed that although it mentions several possible algorithms for coordination, they are mainly aimed at avoiding simultaneous actions by competing ASAs.
Is there also scope for applying explicit consensus-forming algorithms as well? There is quite a large literature on consensus algorithms, mainly starting with Paxos. I'm not saying that any of that is directly applicable to Anima, but it seems like a closely related problem space. What I did notice is that all consensus algorithms seem to assume that at any one moment, there is a designated "master" that is in effect the arbitrator. It would be nice to avoid that, if possible. It isn't clear to me whether draft-ciavaglia-anima-coordination assumes that the actual coordination function runs in a specific master. Regards Brian _______________________________________________ Anima mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/anima
