On 17 April 2014 22:13, Tony Arcieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Joseph Bonneau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We could design a chat protocol where every participant has a Lamport >> clock and these are committed to in each message as an alternative to the >> "git commit history" formulation considered above. > > > I was actually thinking about proposing exactly this when I saw Moxie's > original description, but I began to worry about the details, like: > > - If someone joins a conversation later, who do they inherit their vector > clocks from? Someone who invited them to the conversation?
When someone joins a conversation, its actually a new conversation, so everyone starts again. > - What about siblings? (same problem as git) Siblings appear in different orders for different people. > - Could this actually result in confusing/deceptive output? Yes. :-) _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
