Tad, I fully agree. TP2 leads us to the area of peer-to-peer. My team at University has spent the last three years on solving some security problems that arise when running an MMOG like WoW on a peer-to-peer system without any central authority. The algorithms are very complex and many of them eat up a decent amount of bandwidth. It will take some additional research years to reach a level of trust comparable to that of a centralized MMOG.
Based on this experience, I cannot imagine that Wave (which is not research, but a productive system) will be ported to TP2. However, from a scientific point of view it might be interesting to explore the potential benefits of a TP2-based wave. Greetings Torben 2010/2/25 Tad Glines <[email protected]> > There's been some discussion about wave and how things would be much better > if wave supported TP2. > > Currently all deltas must be sent to the wavelet host, or owner, for > transformation before the delta can be propagated to all other wavelet > readers. This means that Wave doesn't support the OT property TP2. If wave > supported TP2, then there would be no need for a wavelet "owner" and each > server could arrive at the consistent wavelet state independent of each > other. Put another way: without TP2, the wavelet "owner" is the single point > of failure. With TP2, there is no single point of failure, and no "owner". > And there's the problem, no owner means no control. > > In order for wave to be successful there needs to be a wavelet "owner". The > "owner" can enforce schemas and enforce access control policies. If wave > supported TP2, then it would be impossible for a server to prevent a another > server from writing to the wavelet. One could expect all the servers to > "play nice together" but there is no way to explicitly enforce access > control policies in a TP2 environment when the servers are owned and > operated by separate entities. > > -Tad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > -- --------------------------- Prof. Torben Weis Universitaet Duisburg-Essen [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
