Re: Programmatic and security models for IoT

Tim Coote <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Feb 2015 15:21:18 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
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> On 6 Feb 2015, at 14:50, Valerio Bellizzomi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 12:10 +0000, Tim Coote wrote:
>> I’m also tracking js, but I’m not a huge fan of such poor typing - Flow seems to be an approach to addressing this.
>> I like your anecdotes of adopting the technologies.
>> 
>> Thanks for those links. Like many that I’ve seen, there seems to be an emphasis on ‘happy path’ coding. IoT is a really hostile compute environment:
>> - connections are very flakey
> 
> 
> where connections are flaky I would expect something like DTN.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking
> 
> 
Actually, the flaky comms was something that I considered well addressed by E’s distributed computing model (http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/ewalnut.html#SEC18), which, to my mind, puts about the right amount of awareness of the potential failures into the mind of the developer (ie she has to consider failure of any remote access), while not exposing the very difficult challenges of unknown failures (eg the work of Waterken and COVR assure less fragile systems.)

Tim
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