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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Hugh Perkins wrote:
Peter,
Disclaimer: the only thing I'm sure about the problem is that I havent fully
understood it ;-)
The problem appears to be a stable way of identifying each machine? Could
you use an IP address and por
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Okay, so I layed out the problem in the my previous email. Now for some
thoughts on the solution.
Essentially, we need a distributed way of uniquely identifying a site that
cannot be spoofed, and does not get tripped up by the many possible
netw
Peter,
Disclaimer: the only thing I'm sure about the problem is that I havent fully understood it ;-)
The problem appears to be a stable way of identifying each machine? Could you use an IP address and port as seen by an (internet-based) STUN server?
On 3/27/06, Peter Amstutz <[EMAIL PROTECT
And so says Lalo Martins on 27/03/06 13:16...
> A record could be just a PCR to a remote object. Or even better, a
> Vobject containing the remote PCR, but also some metadata.
Er. Remote PCRs are probably not the most useful representation,
specially seeing as we may already be using remote PCRs
And so says Peter Amstutz on 27/03/06 12:46...
> The solution is to completely re-think how a remote site is identified,
> and I will discuss this in my next email.
Cryptographic key pairs? (Which would then also open up the field to
encrypted payloads when we deem them necessary?)
So A can refe
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Hugh Perkins wrote:
Something I've been thinking about a lot is replication and migration of
computation. If a VOS AI bot could upload itself to other servers (given
proper credentials, of course) it could quite literally wand
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Something that has been a big source of trouble for... well pretty much
forever is a problem I call the "peer introduction problem".
Here it is in a nutshell. Your client C has a connection to site A.
Site A links to a vobject on host B. You hav
> Something I've been thinking about a lot is replication and migration ofcomputation. If a VOS AI bot could upload itself to other servers (givenproper credentials, of course) it could quite literally wander from server
to server, well beyond the purview of the creator. Unlike a virus orworm, it
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A few comments...
VOS grew out of my work for the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory at the
University of Massachusetts. Multi-Agent Systems is, broadly states, the
study of distributed AI systems. At the time we were developing a
simulator which ti
