On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Antony Blakey <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On 03/03/2009, at 5:20 AM, Chris Anderson wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Antony Blakey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> What security issues are you thinking of? >>> >> >> The one where you can tell by looking at a doc, which node it was >> inserted on. I suppose that's not strictly security - more like >> anonymity. >> > > If you want to a feature such as replication tracking i.e. who have I > replicated from, and how up-to-date am I, the ability to track the > replication source chould would be a good thing. It would allow a computed > version-vector form of staleness-tracking. I can see the point of replication source, but document origination source is different than replication source, isn't it? > > > More would be required than just having a source identifier, because you > would need to map that identifier to a domain useful to the user, but it > would be a start. > > I wonder if anonymity, even transitive anonymity, is that useful? Yes. And not just for copyright infringement apps.
