[Gzz] 19th

[Benja Fallenstein]

More thinking about what a possible Storm RFC should contain. I'm 
drafting a "Persistency Commitment," essentially saying: Future 
specifications MUST ensure that implementations can still read all 
blocks that are readable according to the current specification. (Not be 
able to read the application format encapsulated in the block, of 
course: only extracting the payload and providing all necessary 
meta-data from the headers.) This has some interesting consequences: for 
example, x- headers are really bad in this type of specification, 
because if they get popular, essentially there's no way for future 
implementations not to support them (because users will reasonably 
expect that old blocks continue to work).

Daishi Kato, the maintainer of GISP (gisp.jxta.org, a distributed 
hashtable impl), is considering writing a UDP version of GISP which will 
be Kaffe-compliant. (The current impl uses JXTA, which requires Java 
1.4... I told Daishi that we're interested in distributed hashtables and 
explained Storm somewhat, but that we want to run on purely free software.)

- Benja