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Re: [dcon] Not distributed

Simon Pietro Romano <spromano@unina.it> Tue, 15 November 2011 08:28 UTC

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Hi,

I personally don't see what would make DisCo more distributed than DCON 
(even though I agree on the fact that DisCo is a cool name ;-) ).
The two proposals, indeed, have many commonalities. I also see backward 
compatibility with XCON as a big plus, rather than a drawback.

Simon

Il 15/11/2011 00:56, Marc Petit-Huguenin ha scritto:
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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.
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>
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knauf-p2psip-disco-04
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