On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:38 AM, cyrano <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, this topic is from foundation-l, I think it is more suited on > wikitech-l. > > -------- Message original -------- > > What about sharing the whole databases among the millions of users, in > some p2p net with a lot of redundancies?, something like a dense, cloudy > internet of databases who remains whole even if it looses part of > itself? Does it sound unwordly? > It could be a good complement to the server based versions.
this sounds nice but just wouldn't work at all. we need to have reliable databases with a consistant latency. > > Le 22/01/2012 20:50, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen a écrit : >> The simple option that will just blow all this talk fo lobbying away, >> is to migrate outside US jurisdiction entirely. It does entail some >> costs, and may well not be optimal, on many fronts. s/some/lots of/ >> >> A medium option is to do a plan on the lines of the actions that >> Google has already put into force, of diversifying datacenters that >> have our non-fungible assets, so that for enforcement they would >> have to invade sovreign territory. But for a non-profit, our best line >> would be to say that we are making those plans, but actually want >> to keep the US have the PR benefit of being able to say that WMF >> like entities find the US best to be incorporated in. And then grin >> very hard, so they know we mean business. Follow up with saying >> the very real contingency plans can not wait on their realizing they >> have the wrong end of the stick, so we have to act now. >> >> So we will put a few fallback datacenters elsewhere, just so our >> various communities and chapters realize we aren't going to be >> bullied by US jurisdiction. But we have a much more expansive >> plan which we tell we will eventually realize. But the legislators >> in the US have to understand we are doing this all so they realize >> what they are working on is harmful to prosperity around the globe. >> again, expensive! >> And if they play ball, (we won't give a cent of tribute, sorry) we will >> not accelerate the rate at which we realize the full international >> nature of the Wikimedia Foundation. >> >> That is pretty much the line of "education" that might be effective, >> without costing the Foundation a single backhander. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
