asciilifeform: a copy of my wotgraph kept around as a message in a bottle under nitrogen in my brother's house, say, will not really carry out its function as a live reflection of my wot-will.
asciilifeform: probably quite a few folks. but the thing that distinguishes fermat from wot is that wot needs to be at least quasi-'hot' to really work as intended, imho.
asciilifeform: the fact that my wot actions disappear when my node loses net
asciilifeform: wot, i'd say, falls somewhere between (or floating far in the state-space) from currency or mere words
asciilifeform: ('the same' topologically! not mechanically, clearly)
asciilifeform: hawala is more or less the same, but implemented in the informal, mouth-to-ear way contemplated above.
asciilifeform: think of the advantage bitcoin has over hawala.
asciilifeform: when part of mechanism, by spec and by reliable practice sans hand-holding
asciilifeform: we again arrive at a system of ad-hoc, bug-ridden relays and informal mirrors
asciilifeform: or would have to station it shore-side somehow
asciilifeform: under the contemplated scheme, i may as well not bother to use wot then
asciilifeform: and say my sub, a considerably poorer vessel, only has connection when on equator. say, one day in 60, in sight of particular satellite.
asciilifeform: not so much a concern re: fakes, but losses.
asciilifeform: and i can't sign it with a fresh mircea-nonce.
asciilifeform: aye i have an old list. but that's quite ad-hoc.
asciilifeform: worse yet, if the boat were to perish in honourable combat, with all hands aboard, the global state of wot shall return to as if he and the crew had never lived ?
asciilifeform: perhaps root of disagreement is that i originally contemplated something more along the lines of a very fast usenet, rather than potentially slow chat.
asciilifeform: this apparatus of yours is not merely ircd with new coat of paint. it is a very different animal mathematically, as you lot will soon realize.
asciilifeform: if i'm on a satellite modem, i doubt that one in ten messages of 5-second window will make it through to my node.
asciilifeform: the distinction between 'log' and 'allow very high-latency chat' is very thin.
asciilifeform: and synchronize based on histories of individual pubkeys
asciilifeform: why not allow a node to store as much history as he wishes to expend on disk
asciilifeform: a window of 5 seconds will give quite a few dropped messages.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your site is down as seen from my perch
asciilifeform: there is no reason to bring 'net splits' into existence again.
asciilifeform: so it may as well apply to everything.
asciilifeform: thing is, you need a hard-reliable mechanism regardless of what you do, if only on account of having the WoT in this thing.
asciilifeform: if you take the bundle approach, you are suddenly faced with a multitude of very arbitrary decisions re: what ought to be included in bundle.
asciilifeform: hash-chain or some variation on that theme is the only way an operator can be certain of possessing an unbroken chain of what a particular key has uttered.
