Re: Thoughts on Discovery

On 29 March 2016 at 16:32, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 29 March 2016 at 15:48, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
> wrote:
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>> This is a higher level function.
>> I.e. I give you some identifier for my account like
>> adrian@mywalletprovider.com and you have a well-defined protocol to
>> resolve the address of my ledger from that.
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> Have a look what happens when I hover over the link you pasted (image
> attached)
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> firefox automatically translates it into mailto:
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> this denotes an email address using a URI
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Right, because in the context of an email program it makes sense to
normalize that to a mailto: URI.


> so how do you send money to an email address, this becomes a trivial
> problem with a super ledger, you just send it to the URI
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How? I'm not following how I would send money to a mailto: URI?


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>> Following which you will do path finding to my ledger.
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>> If ILP is TCP/IP then we're trying to figure out a good way to do DNS :)
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>> On 29 March 2016 at 15:26, Xavier Vas <xavier@tr80.com> wrote:
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>>> Adrian,
>>>
>>> Sorry, I'm confused, how's this discussion separate from our discussions
>>> on path finding and routing? How exactly do you define "discovery" vs.
>>> "path finding"?
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>>> Xav
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Received on Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:47:35 UTC