From: Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com>
To: edou@rdklein.fr, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: A paper about Plan 9 and Guix
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 03:06:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEEhgEuXsfPbTyPBXOM-hyaQhS8k=8S7Wpj0Y0UG2spKn5U_rQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Wow, that's incredible.
>Port number themselves stem from TCP emerging from earlier protocols (see the early RFCs 322, 349, 433 and those that obsolete them), and a clean design would probably elect to eschew them, leveraging a \(2^{128}\) address space to allow process-to-process communication, instead of the route-to-host, then route-to-process dance we do know.
>
>The host to process frontier should be an implementation detail on the receiving end, not baked so deeply in the stack.
>This barrier may even change from request to request as new hosts come up or down depending on load.
>This already happens anyway with e.g. kubernetes, but we would have less cruft if it was baked into the protocol.
That sounds like some of the problems RINA was trying to solve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_Internetwork_Architecture
next reply other threads:[~2024-04-09 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-09 8:06 Nathan Dehnel [this message]
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2024-04-04 20:20 A paper about Plan 9 and Guix Edouard Klein
2024-04-08 5:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2024-04-10 15:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-06-02 13:14 ` Edouard Klein
2024-06-06 14:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
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