[tahoe-dev] uTP (low extra delay transport)

[Jack Lloyd]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:55:38PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 05:54 PM, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> > (And in deploying things to work on the general Internet, it's
> > reasonably likely you'll encounter really dumn NAT implementations,
> > but I'm not even sure how relevent that is to Tahoe - how many people
> > are going to run storage servers behind a NAT and yet be
> > unable/unwilling to configure the NAT to forward the ports?)
> >   
> 
> I think there's a lot of value in making Tahoe usable by people who
> wouldn't necessarily have the expertise to do any kind of NAT
> configuration (for example, I think Tahoe would be a pretty good basis
> for a decentralized social network type system).

I would agree this is an excellent potential use of Tahoe, but one of
the advantages of Tahoe is that to do this securely, you don't need to
host your own storage server; you just create files in the grid, and
the only problem for the application/end-user is managing and sharing
the capabilities.

-Jack