Re: [vos-d] Van Jacobson: named data -- revision control

2007-05-09 Thread Ken Taylor
Lalo Martins wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 09:07:57 +0200, Karsten Otto wrote: I don't quite understand what you need versioning for. The bulk of changes you get in a shared word is avatar movement, which may wind up to ~30 changes per second per avatar. Do you really want to keep a record

Re: [vos-d] Van Jacobson: named data -- revision control

2007-05-09 Thread Peter Amstutz
I don't think Jacobson was suggesting that a really new paradigm in networking would be able to handle the robust case of broadcast data, of which unicasting is simply a subset. I find you need a little creativity to fill in some of the gaps in the later part of the talk, since he wasn't

Re: [vos-d] Van Jacobson: named data -- revision control

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:56:07PM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote: There are lots of ways to do version control in VOS-- we already have it partly implemented. One important thing that we need to decide is how to expose particular object revisions to remote sites. I think we need to be able to

Re: [vos-d] Van Jacobson: named data -- revision control

2007-05-08 Thread Reed Hedges
This means that if that version object is mutable, i.e. a not read-only property, we need to also have branches in the version history, and any reference to a past version of a vobjcet is really a reference to the most recent version in the branch rooted on this object, which if there is