Re: Thoughts on Discovery

On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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> On 29 March 2016 at 21:47, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','adrian@hopebailie.com');>> wrote:
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>> What is a super-ledger? It sounds like you're suggesting that the whole
>> world should all just use a single ledger which seems pretty hard to scale
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> I mentioned it in another thread.  A super ledger is a ledger where every
> entry is a URI.  Just as URIs are sometimes called "super keys".  All of
> the ledgers Im working with are are super ledgers.
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How does the URI resolve to the address of the super-ledger?

Do I need to query every super ledger to find the account I'm looking for?


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>> On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','melvincarvalho@gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>>> On 29 March 2016 at 16:47, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
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>>>> 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>
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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.
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>>>>> 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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>>> In a super ledger every entry is a URI, so you just have the mailto:
>>> address as the recipient.  Problem solved.
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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,
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>>>>>>> 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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