2003-11-04 01:29:02

Note to self: a client or service node in hybrid Superstring need not know whether it is connecting to a dynamic environment or a stable one, and hence doesn’t need to choose which routing layer to use. In the wide-area protocol client and service nodes connect to a DHT resolver by the same means as all nodes in the ant-based protocol connect to each other. Therefore, the only requirement is that if a node is to be a resolver in the wide-area protocol, it must realise it needs to use the wide-area DHT based protocol. Some administrative intervention may be allowable since resolver nodes are long lived and will be under the control of a systems administrator. All other nodes simply communicate with the ad-hoc protocol.