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Who is ready to be a mentor this year? We need a list of mentor. You'll communicate with the student over the summer to help him/her reach goals and get a 500$ reward from Google. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Michael Raskin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is called "breaking many use cases for email". This means I cannot > >> write email on a blackboard in the beginning of a talk. > > > >Not so, I issue an Interest packet which floods into the network and > >finds you. The Interest packet says Michael, Stewart has an email for > >you, please pull it. > >You issue an Interest and which floods the network to me and I respond. > > And how deciding to pull or not to pull this email is different from > deciding to read or not read a email now? > > >> For name resolution you either need a lot of address conversion > >> infrastructure or to flood everyone at some points. > > > >There is no name resolution, The Interest packet is flooded into the > >network, each node checks to see if they have data which matches the > >Interest packet. > >Names and Locations are divorced. > > I am not sure that this flood of named requests is better than > suboptimal delivery of popular content. > > >> It is a big deal once your content request becomes LRU-forgotten before > >> the reply arrives. > > > >If there is no pending Interests then the data is dropped immediately, > >fear not, the data will pulled another way. > > I need to have large timeout on all routers along at least one path. > Percolation theory says it is not a trivial question… > > >> Routers are likely to have their own certified list and only allow you > >> to see things they have in their trust system. > >Could be, any different from a database? > > Yes, because again I need an unbroken chain. > > >> None of NDN benefits happen unless you actually route something via > >> caching routers. > >Yes buffers have been used as part of networking for decades now. It's > >not new just the buffers can be a database, > >a filesystem, a memory stick whatever. > > The size of the buffers and characteristic times are different. The > degradation also happens differently. > > >> When you use /nix/store/ as cache, it is cheaper to do properly > >> checksummed P2P over TCP/IP and not help a technology likely to make > >> Internet filtering cheaper. > > > >What is cheaper? Secondly how do you cheaply incorporate a temporal > >binding? Not going to happen. > > When you have no in-transfer caching, what is the benefit of NDN? > > Freenet does caching of popular content, too. Bittorrent also > effectively does. > > NDN makes filtering cheaper, because the request for specific content > is easier to distinguish. Also it makes it creates incentives for > routers to ignore non-popular content. > > >> Now, collecting unreferenced old paths may be a good idea. Removing > >> rarely-used still-referenced-from-profile paths is malicious. > >> > >> Some links are slow; some rarely used things are important when they > >> are used. > > > >Yes you are correct it is malicious if you have no network connection, > >then you could argue being disconnected from the Internet is > >malicious. > > Not having a reasonable connection to the Internet some of the time is > a norm in most places, US included. > > >Which I agree with! > > NDN helps effectively disconnecting people from Internet, in my opinion. > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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