2010/8/9 Daniel Paull <[email protected]> > Hi Patrik, > > Without OT (WOOT) is mentioned on the Wikipedia OT article here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation#Critique_of_OT > > The reference to their paper (as shown on Wikipedia) is: > > http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00071240/en/ > > When memory serves me right, WOOT does not delete characters and they argue that the memory complexity is nevertheless equal or better than OT because there is no need to store past deltas. The fault in this thinking is that a) The client memory complexity becomes very high with WOOT whereas with OT it is only the server (i.e. database) memory complexity that becomes high. b) To get the wave-like security we need to sign deltas -> we have to store them anyway.
Greetings Torben > Dealing with the complexity of OT by not using OT is what WOOT is all > about, which seems relevant to this thread of discussion. > > Cheers, > > Dan > > > > On Aug 7, 10:13 pm, Patrick Nagel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > On 2010-08-07 14:01 UTC Daniel Paull wrote: > > > > > Without OT - is that meant to be a reference to Oster and Imine's > > > work? Or am I giving you too much credit? > > > > I have never heard of their work, so yes, you're most certainly giving me > too > > much credit ;) > > > > Again: Ian Roughley proposed (maybe) moving away from OT - at least > that's how > > I understood his mail - and I was then just thinking aloud whether that > > wouldn't be similar to current VCS protocols. > > > > Patrick. > > > > -- > > Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc > > Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 > > > > signature.asc > > < 1KViewDownload > > -- > 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.
