Mind sharing some thoughts on how it would be possible to use Metacard to
develop "open?" distributed computing, which is (pretty) secure?
What techniques could be/are generally used?
What features/externals would Metacard need to implement to acheive these?
> From: andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:44:06 -0500
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: if the network is the computer, is MC the network?
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> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>> Dream mode:
>> With MC's new socket support added to all its other capabilities, I
>> wonder what kind of creatures we can now build... can we extend the
>> message-passing hierarchy from Portland to Helsinki? Can MC go beyond
>> being an application platform, and become a network platform? In a way,
>> a stack has always been a micro-network.
>>
>> Food for thought.
>>
>> Can you "start using" a stack that's known to MC only by its URL?
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> I got scared by similar thoughts ;-)
> I think you can "start using" but in an indirect way. Security is my main
> concern in matters like this though.
>
>> --
>> Phil Davis
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