This is, I think, a fascinating concept worth persuing.

$.02,

- ferg



-- Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> wrote:


On May 20, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Fergie wrote:

> pub/sub how, exactly?

I think of pub/sub as an application concept:  I have content I am  
willing to share, and someone else tells me that they are interested.  
In this context, I should think the receiving node would tell the  
sending node that it was interested if the other guy wanted to talk.

So now I wonder how this works. I walk into a meeting room and open  
my laptop. It joins a wireless network, and voila! the peers and  
servers I am interested in all tell me that they are publishing  
something to which I might subscribe?

I think this is going to require some work to describe. At the end of  
the day, it is never the receiver that knows there is content out  
there to receive; it is always the one who sends it who has that  
knowledge.

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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