SIMP

[Rick Stevens]

Ivan, these are precisely the questions that the GGF groups are working
on for other p2p services.. we should look at how they are proposing
to doi it with directory services etc.

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

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> Interesting idea.  Chew on this:
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> If presence were truly peer to peer, there'd have to be a layer of
> services providing something like DNS for the peers trying to find each
> other.  What would that look like?
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> Can I update the cached stuff at that layer because I'm me?  Who manages
> the authoritative information?  What's the protocol look like?
> 
> --Ivan
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