"Now-ish" is a great interpretation of it. The server can't send everyone a packet every nanosecond.
And I don't think it should 'degrade' to server-client, I think that all machines should be servers of their own spaces. At least, that's how it worked out in my head, for my VOS. (And when I really look at TerAngreal and the other VOS apps, it seems as though such an architecture is easy to set up. Just bundle the client and the server in a single executable, and fork the thread when the user wants to share his/her own content, aye? -Steve On 12/1/06, Karsten Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This approach is also much better from a semantics point of view. There is a sense of "now" (well, at least "now-ish"), and an indication that "[dog] starts [barking] [now]"... with proper identifiers for [dog] and [barking], an agent can understand whats going on. Oh, btw... we are speaking of a "server" here, but VOS is still conceptually P2P, even if in practice it degenerated to client-server due to firewall issues. Time coordination among peers is nasty; I'd suggest the site hosting the sector vobject should act as a time coordinator (read "server" above) then.
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