Is there an "official" wishlist for Tahoe features? I know that opening that door is asking for trouble, but there is a chance that someone actually thinks they want that trouble.<div><br></div><div>For the wishlist:</div>
<div> - Browser-based download(-only) client.</div><div><br></div><div>I know we've talked about this before, but even though the reality of building it is beyond the next horizon, but I sometimes think it's helpful to lay down the specs for these kinds of dream projects in case they ever become a reality.</div>
<div><br></div><div> - Point it at the introducer</div><div> - Give it the capabilities through HTML</div><div> - Have it directly download shares from the grid (as opposed to having a node reconstituted the file and then send it.</div>
<div>....hmmm</div><div> - I guess you could build the URL as something like:</div><div> pb://introducercap@servername:33386/introducer/file/filecap/@@named=/IMG_6947.jpg</div><div>The client would have to disentangle the introducer and the cap/filename.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This would</div><div> - Distribute bandwidth load</div><div> - send shares to the client from "close" nodes (as of the 1.6 code)</div><div><br></div><div>If the publisher was more interested in widely casting the shares over the grid, they could change n and k to 2 and 50, which (given the appropriate grid geographics) would spread the shares widely over the internet. I like the idea.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just thinking.</div><div><br></div><div>jody</div><div>----<br>- Think carefully.<br>- Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius)<br>- Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St. Augustin of Hippo)<br>
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