[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[Toni Alatalo]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Toni Alatalo <address@hidden>   03/02/15 11:35:50

Modified files:
        storm          : article.rst 

Log message:
        more on open issues

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.170&tr2=1.171&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.170 manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.171
--- manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.170 Sat Feb 15 11:35:10 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/article.rst       Sat Feb 15 11:35:50 2003
@@ -1082,15 +1082,14 @@
 7.2 Status, open issues and future work
 ---------------------------------------
 
-[worth to mention, security in general ? -Hermanni]
-1) Open issue: We want to be able
-to copy the blocks from the NYT publication pool to our local computer
-and verify offline that it really comes from NYT. How to do this will go
-into the article as an open research question ;-)
+.. [worth to mention, security in general ? -Hermanni]
+   1) Open issue: We want to be able
+   to copy the blocks from the NYT publication pool to our local computer
+   and verify offline that it really comes from NYT. How to do this will go
+   into the article as an open research question ;-)
 
-2) Open issue: identification of online entities ?
-
-[worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
+.. 2) Open issue: identification of online entities ?
+   [worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
 
 .. moved the following here from intro, as suggested by (b&) Hermanni
 
@@ -1105,9 +1104,10 @@
 Xanalogical principles and) to use Storm for storage. A candidate for this
 work is the object-oriented (web) publishing environment Zope [ref 
zope.org/com, book,
 article?], which is open source and stores everything by default as diffs to
-a (flat file) database.
+a (flat file) database. Another way is studying the applicability of the 
+open hypermedia protocol (OHP) [refs].
 
-.. [worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
+.. [worth to mention ? -Hermanni .. left here as notes for future --antont]
    objectbase ZODB).(?) The benefits Storm would provide there, and how e.g. 
    peer-to-peer based Zope would then work, are yet unknown for the authors. 
    (feel free to know, though :) Similarly(?) to Storm, Zope also stores
@@ -1119,15 +1119,16 @@
 
 .. [worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
 
-design&impelement p2p functionality, where Symphony and Kademlia potential 
alternativies
-for DHT overlay
-   
-.. [worth to mention, fetching data etc. ? -Hermanni]
-
-1. Open issue: Tree hashing, also possibly needed for (OceanStore-like?)
-   distribution of shares
-2. Open issue/Future directions: implement multisource downloading
-
+Designing and implementing the peer-to-peer functionality, where Symphony
+and Kademlia are potential alternativies for the DHT overlay, is being
+worked on. There open issues include the use of tree hashing, the
+potential need for (OceanStore-like?) distribution of shares and
+implementing multisource downloading.
+
+As mentioned in the presentation of Storm block storage (section 4.),
+although the terminology used here is about characters and text, all media
+are considered. There dealing with e.g. video data, with very large file
+sizes, as (collections of) blocks, is partly unresolved.
 
 .. [not worth to mention ? -Hermanni]
    [how does video work here, i.e. are they huge blocks or collections of many
@@ -1151,13 +1152,6 @@
 .. [not worth to mention, see above ? -Hermanni]
    Open issue: other related systems (within gzz?) for e.g. more synchronous
    collabaration (irc?)?
-
-.. [not worth to mention, see above OpenHyp paragraph ? -Hermanni]
-   Investigating the degrees of interoperability with Open Hypermedia
-   (/Structural Computing?) and (more primitive?) other (Web) XXX is a possible
-   direction for future work, and will be preliminarly discussed here too.
-   [benja says: Really? Do we/can we discuss that really? antont: 'll try.]
-   (checked OHProtocol, no fruit there yet)
 
 .. [not worth to mention, first p2p proto then these ;) ? -Hermanni]
    p2p -> cf half-life of peers (Mojo Nation): Is it desirable that 'weak' 
peers