On 9/7/2010 4:43 PM, Alen Peacock wrote: > Matthew (or anyone else), any chance you could comment on future plans > for swarming in RTMFP (like, if any exist)? I thought maybe Kevin > Lynch was alluding to adding such capabilities when he was talking > about making video distribution more affordable here: > http://gigaom.com/2008/08/04/the-gigaom-interview-kevin-lynch-cto-adobe-systems/ > , but maybe he was referring only to the multicast RTMFP Group stuff? > The FAQ at http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Stratus:FAQ also > mentions swarming several times (saying that isn't supported by 10.1 > and Air 1.5), but almost teasing that it might be in future versions > -- or am I reading too much between the lines there? > > If you can't answer this specifically, that is understandable -- would > be useful to understand some idea of the roadmap for the future > though. > Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 both support RTMFP Groups, and one of its modes is a thing called "Object Replication". The documentation is readily available online, and RTMFP Groups can be tested today by using Adobe Stratus as the peer introduction service. Stratus also supports automatic bootstrapping of group membership.
I believe this will all support what you're talking about when you say "swarming". Also note that as of this past June, I am no longer with Adobe. Matthew Kaufman _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
