[REBOL] Re: While we are announcing
From: m:koopmans2:chello:nl at: 7-Mar-2002 7:07
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Within the next few weeks/months I'll be releasing a P2P stack on top of
> >Rugby.
> >Finally Rugby is mature enough for that!
> >
> Not an answer to your question, just my question (as typical, am I not?
You have a reputation to live up to ;-)
> :-) - will you share with us capabilities of your stack in comparison to
> Gnutella technology e.g.? How will be nodes organised,
> interconnected/clustered, how will searches be propagated, etc? Maybe
> more ppl could come up with some interesting ideas here?
>
I will put out a release which is Gnutella and/or Freenet like but with all
the messages in Rugby.
So that it will be high-level and goes through all firewalls, possibly with
built-in security. If people on thes ml will react and test, I can then
improve nodes sorting etc. as things develop. There is some stuff known
about what is wrong in Gnutella net, but as I improve on that we may learn
other things.
Although choosing Rugby as transport without a doubs is a bit slower than
implementing a P2P protocol direct in TCP the power of what you can do then
should compensate for that.
Once that works I'll release the source code on a seperate website,
hopefully with an Encapped version with a GUI for end users. Using built-in
encryption of course ;-)
I have been planning this and working on it for some time (as you knew, I
think). Gabriele pointed me to this direction some time ago, so many thanks
to him as well.
Be prepared,
Maarten
--Maarten
