9 May 2007

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PeerCasting

It looks like the nodal way of thought is really starting to manifest out there. I was doing some research on distributed hash tables and discovered that the P2P streams paradigm used by Skype etc has now reached the open-source world and is generally called peercasting.

This concept is extremely significant to the project and a whole new level above the current DHT paradigm because it supports multicast streams. In terms of a distributed object environment the multicast aspect can be used to connect classes asyncronously with their many instances, and information with its viewers.