[ANet-devel] Re: A starting point

[Dale T. <dal...@88...>]

Ok...

I've tried the documentation edit and it works fine.  So we'll be able to
correct each others spelling etc... ;)

I think it is a good idea to have linux as the initial platform and a messaging
application would be an ideal starting point.

I must admit I'm not that keen on doing a file transfer program - FreeNet and Publius can already do this.  I think we need something that people haven't done before.  But all of the applications can be built apon a basic messaging platform.  The underlying library shouldn't care if it's transferring a chunk of a document or a query - it just has some data to transfer between two places.

Also how do people feel about making the core library LGPL?  We have a bigger
chance that more people will use it which would allways be good?

I've done some TCP/IP programming in C & Java so I'm sure it won't be too much
of a problem.

thanks,

- Dale

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:48:53PM -0500, Benoit Nadeau wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >While I'm waiting to be approved for the devel list I'll e-mail you both
> >directly.
> 
> Done!
> 
> 
> >I think it would be useful to define the scope of the initial design -
> >e.g. get something working as quickly as posible so that we have a
> >framework in
> >which to test our ideas.  I don't think it will be possible for us to get
> >a really good
> >idea of how to approach the problem until we have tried a few designs.  Agree?
> 
> Yep. Let's start the TCP/IP module on Linux, stdio for the interface, and
> the bare minimum for the rest. But I never did TCP/IP on Linux, and
> LinuxPPC on my machine has some weird problems with the network card...
> Ajaya, could you help by coding some TCP/IP?
> 
> 
> >I'd suggest that the first step would be to design the interface and possible
> >implementation of a distributed anonymous messaging library.  Once we have
> >this defined then it should be easy to build applications on top of it.
> 
> That's actually what I meant by "Core Module": a kind of "distributed
> anonymous messaging library".
> 
> 
> >It would also be good to get some ideas on the table for a first application -
> >something that can show that our library works and is well founded?
> 
> The first service could be some kind email, that is, sending a text message
> to everyone on the network as a "distributed query". But the file browsing
> service wouldn't too complicated to code, once all the other modules
> (Interface, Core, Direct-to-port and TCP/IP) are done.
> 
> 
> >I've started writing down some ideas for a messaging protocol based on the
> >stuff that Benoit has already done (good start BTW).  I will hopefully have my
> >ideas concrete enough to put them in an e-mail by Monday.
> 
> Great! I will add some docs (Part 3: Network Optimization and Part 4:
> Security Systems), but they won't be complete, especially the security one.
> This will mean that we'll have an "idea clash" next Monday! Great! (I
> already said that...)
> 
> You all have "Editor" access to the docs, so you should be able to add and
> edit your docs directly to the site. But don't ask me how. Maybe this means
> that you'll be able to click on "Admin". Their web site is far from being
> "administrator-friendly"...
> 
> 
> >PS Did you come up with ANet to mean Anonymous Network?
> 
> Anonymous and Anarchy. I'll write this down on the web site.
> 
> .....
> 
> THE SSH LOGIN WORKS!
> http://anet.sourceforge.net/ WORKS!
> 
> I'll work a bit on it this weekend, but it's not my top priority.
> Chris, could you do some web pages for me? Hehe. Just a joke. ;-)
> 
> - Benad
>