On Feb 28, 2005, at 2:58 AM, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Ramble:
> - For the user it would be better to send the retrieval request to all 
> hits in parallel; for the network that wouldn't be as nice of course;
> - So maybe a two-stage protocol? Ask for a file handle, retrieve from 
> the first host that responds?
>
>

Absolutely! This will be the simplest way to localize bandwidth and 
resource usage for peers that need the resources at a given time. That 
saves the overall network resources for the myriad of messages that 
will grow as more services are available. One of things about gnutella 
and other p2p networks out there, is the number of services available 
hasn't changed a whole lot - they are mostly being use for file 
sharing. So first we are putting MC repositories up, plus chat, then 
developer events, Pair programming browsers, Modules repositories, p2p 
Squeakmap, shared class /module documentation, BFAV on steroids, 
etc.... as you can see, the number of messages related to the just the 
services without the actual files being shipped around will grow 
dramatically as the network grows, so partitioning off things that are 
essentially one to one file transfers makes more sense to me.

Brian