-- Jon Crowcroft wrote: >well, an _implementation_ would be to use digital fountain/multicast - >you join the right group(s) >and packets start to flow... > >but thats just one _possible_ implementation...another (typcially, not >called "multicast" but the exact same idea) >is pub/sub > Hmmm. pub/sub how, exactly? I'm thinking something like, what I would call "RSS Rendezvous" -- of course, not using RSS, but a strikingly similar model. Could you perhaps elaborate a bit? Thanks! - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/