After talking to Artur Bergman, who is responsible for Wikia's network architecture, I've been persuaded that basing P2P storage on distributed hash tables might be a recipe for disaster, given their complexity and lack of sustained track record. I'm bummed because I think the DHTs are awesome, at least conceptually.
So I've rewritten yesterday's technical proposal to discard DHTs in favor of centralized storage node lists. Until the network gets absolutely huge, the simplicity of distributing (differential, compressed) node list updates far outweighs the possible complexity introduced by having to traverse a DHT network. Thanks to everyone who edited the proposal or responded to it on the list. Keep the ideas coming, folks. :) http://openaerialmap.org/Technical_Proposal SDE _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
