ProgNet 2004 -- compilerbitch goes to the Lake District...

[compilerbitch]

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[fanf]

Rendezvous is doing that kind of autoconfiguration and autodiscovery now.

A bigger problem is networking in the large - how do you manage the routing for dynamically-reattaching devices and networks?

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was all acknowledged as being difficult but worthy of further work.

I have no idea how to fix the problem -- I was only there because the ProgNet is part funding my PhD.

Rendezvous is quite interesting -- I looked at it a few years ago when I was specialising in writing comms code for the financial markets for a living. It was hopelessly expensive (and had not-well-understood scaleability) at the time so we didn't use it in the end.