Re: [JXTA discuss] JXTA and Quorum Consensus

Sounds great to me.
+1

Vanessa

On 4-Aug-05, at 8:05 PM, John Schock wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've been working on a JXTA service for collecting quorums of  
> peers, which could be used for peer-to-peer voting and as a basis  
> for distributed database/filesystem etc.  An example of a non-JXTA  
> distributed database based on the same basic quorum consensus idea  
> is here:
>
> http://www.backplane.com/docs.shtml?doc=2
>
> Note that this project isn't a distributed database; though one  
> could be built on it in theory. It is a service that allows one  
> peer to collect a set of responses (aka "Ballots") from a set of  
> other peers in response to a proposed action (an "Initiative"). For  
> instance, in a distributed filesystem, one peer could send out an  
> initiative indicating that it wishes to write some bytes at some  
> offset in some file. If enough other peers respond with affirmative  
> Ballots, then the peer knows it has an up-to-date copy of the file  
> and can proceed with the write.
>
> The idea is based on the "Weighted Voting" algorithm proposed by  
> D.K. Gifford (for those of you with an academic bent, see Gifford,  
> D.K. (1979). Weighted voting for replicated data. In /Proceedings  
> 7th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, /ACM, pp. 150-62.)
>
> I've developed a basic working prototype of the service and a (very  
> simple) distributed filesystem application on top of it, and was  
> thinking of creating a JXTA project to open the project up to the  
> community.
> Does anyone know of any similar work in the JXTA community?
> Would there be any objection to such a project?
>
> If nobody objects, I'm planning to follow up with a formal project  
> proposal in a few days.
>
> Regards,
> -John Schock
>
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