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Re: [saag] The Mathematical Mesh

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 25 April 2019 21:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] The Mathematical Mesh
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 12:14 PM Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Just to be clear: It is a similar approach to blockchain. The encoding used
> is entirely separate.

Understood.  The point is that you end up with a cryptographic
append-only log.

> The reason I was able to simplify the Mesh code was that I realized that
> all my application protocols could be implemented as instances of
> synchronizing containers between devices.

Nice.

> > Count on me as a reviewer,
> 
> Thanks, that is greatly appreciated. The status of the current drafts is
> that the text is more or less complete, there are some missing images and
> multiple missing examples.

Is that a request for review sooner than later?

> The reason for that is that I alternate between writing the documentation
> and implementing it. I began by writing the documentation, wrote the code,
> went back and wrote new documentation describing the code and so on.

Understood.

Nico
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