Hi, I (and my colleagues) have some tentative ideas about creating a system that manages user groups on top of P2PSIP.
Here, "groups" mean communities of users/nodes that share some particular interest and need to communicate with each other as a group. A group would be a subset of the nodes of one (or multiple?) overlays. Groups can overlap and they can be long-lived or short-lived, depending on their purpose. Users would join or leave a group at will, and share resources or otherwise collaborate within the group. The motivation is that several different group-based applications could use the unified group-management as a base for their more specific group activities. Most probably, group management would be an application-level solution that would just use P2PSIP just as an underlying communication enabler. Group management as such is probably not in the scope of the P2PSIP WG (although it could be seen as part of "locating users and resources within a P2PSIP overlay"). In any case, we want to share the idea with the P2PSIP WG and get tentative comments. Maybe someone has already thought of a mechanism for the unified management of such groups. So, the question is: Has anyone already come up with some ideas or even an implementation of a decentralized group-management system on top of P2PSIP? (I searched through the P2PSIP mailing list archives and found no mention of group management.) Best regards, - Otso Kassinen _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
