[p2p-hackers] Interoperable distribution networks, was Re: Identify "defective" nodes

[coderman]

On 2/28/06, Daniel Stutzbach <agthorr at cs.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:56:43PM -0500, Greg Bildson wrote:
> > > Yes, true, it would also need to be able to tell the application "go
> > > fetch this chunk" rather than letting the application choose.
> >
> > Which would likely undermine any algorithm trying to improve availability by
> > downloading random or most rare chunks.
>
> Well, the plug-in could take over doing that part, too.
>
> I did mention this was my pipe-dream plug-in, right? :-)

one way in which this might be useful is download queues, where a
number of files are scheduled for downloading over a number of
distribution/transport networks.

we all know how often failures occur leaving you with a partial
transfer.  Stitch could then identify a partial transfer of one
resource and copy the data into a format (torrent?) that would be
resumable over a different network.

this way you are not running two competing transfers for the same
resource at once, but rather managing two pools of dowload queues and
cooperating between them when partial failures occur.