Re: [dcon] Not distributed

Adnan Saleem <Adnan.Saleem@radisys.com> Tue, 15 November 2011 08:31 UTC

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From: Adnan Saleem <Adnan.Saleem@radisys.com>
To: Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@acm.org>, "dcon@ietf.org" <dcon@ietf.org>
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I can see the point that a workable solution will likely need to be hierarchical, rather than generically distributed.
However, the way I see it, a hierarchical model is still distributed, just a particular type of distributed.
So, I'm ok with using the more generic name 'dcon' for distributed conferencing.

Adnan

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I do not think that "dcon" is the right name for this effort.  I believe that a system needs to be designed from the beginning as been distributed, and that assembling together xcon instances will never produce a distributed system (look at DisCo[1] which, in addition of having a cooler name, is more what I would call a distributed system).

So I propose the name "hcon", short for Hierarchical CONference, which reflects better what seems to be the architecture here.


[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knauf-p2psip-disco-04

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