Van Jacobson talk with strange echoes of Bazaar

[Aaron Bentley]

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Hi all,

I was watching this talk by Van Jacobson about a new networking
paradigm, and I started going "hey, I know this stuff".

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840&hl=en

Around 37:31, he starts talking about a new dissemination mechanism in
which you look for named data, rather than having conversations with
servers.  (This is strongly analogous with the way we retrieve
revisions.)  And he goes on to discuss the fact that this creates a need
for data to be self-authenticating, e.g. with PGP signatures.

In the end, he describes a model that seems to me like a hybrid between
snapshot-oriented DVCS (Bazaar, Hg, Git, MT) and BitTorrent.  Quite
interesting.

I wonder, though, whether a delta-oriented approach might be even more
efficient.  That gets murkier, of course, because it's harder to
implement for non-text media types.

Aaron
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