[E-Lang] Distributed Toontalk (was: VLS for everyone)

[Mark S. Miller]

At 02:14 PM Friday 3/23/01, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>It's amazing not only how many capabiliity systems 
>we have represented on this list, but how many distributed cryptographic 
>capability systems -- E, Droplets, MojoNation, E-Speak2.2, Joule/Indra -- 
>all of which did or could use such a service.

I forgot the strangest distributed capability system of them all, Toontalk.  
Ping recently reminded me that Toontalk's bird can now fly between machines, 
bringing about distributed capability messaging.  Ken, congratulations!

Ken, since your users are mostly kids at home playing "games", I assume you 
must assume they'll often be coming in through modem lines via conventional 
ISPs, which will be doing dynamic IP assignment.  How do you plan to do 
Granovetter introduction in the face of this?  Might you also benefit from a 
universal VLS effort unbundled from E?  Would you care to represent the 
perspective and requirements from Toontalk?


        Cheers,
        --MarkM