<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zooko@zooko.com" target="_blank">zooko@zooko.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
In fact, why do we need to switch from introducers to gossip at all?<br>
Could we finish the rest of the #466 new-introduction-protocol and<br>
related accounting infrastructure while leaving the current<br>
centralized introducer (or the #68 multiple introducers) alone?</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Is there any reason why you can't simply have multiple introducers, which may have inconsistent views of the world, but which otherwise function identically? Clients can use information gathered from all introducers they're connected to in order to make connections to other storage nodes. It seems like all that's really missing is a system to construct the union of the available storage nodes as enumerated by multiple introducers.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br><br>