Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: robust satellite distribution (distributed news) Message-ID: <2114@nsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 14:34:32 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2114 Posted: Tue Dec 25 14:34:32 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Dec-84 01:59:51 EST References: <753@sdcsla.UUCP> <480@vortex.UUCP> <790@milo.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 27 Summary: > Perhaps we should somehow design this to be at least partially >compatable with the "distributed news" effort? Seems there are some >common traits, albiet on different scales. I don't really see an overlap with the distributed news effort at this point. We are right now trying to decide on a set of primitives needed to support a reading interface-- eventually I hope to see us implement these primitives in a real environtment to see how they work. What we are not doing right now is anything involving the database or the transmission of articles between systems-- all of the functions of uucp, inews, rnews or the batching subsystems. We are simply trying to find some way of building an interface so that rn, vnews, readnews, or whatever can use a set of function calls to do their work without worrying about what is on the other side of the functions-- it could be a library interface for a single machine, a client/server on TCP, a distributed file system or something we can't even imagine now. What we are trying to do is isolate the reading programs from making assumptions about the database so that we can install an interface between the database and the reading programs for whatever environment is appropriate without changing either end. chuq -- From the ministry of silly talks: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Deadbone erotica is the prickly panic of forgotten milleniums, it is the moldy billion year madness that creeps deep along the spinal behind of my mind.