Re: Thoughts on Discovery

On 30 March 2016 at 14:51, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com> wrote:

> So you're suggesting that the answer to resolving an account identifier
> (URI) to a ledger URL is to query every known ledger and find out if the
> account exists in that ledger?
>

No, I didnt say that

I think you misunderstand what linked data is, how it works or even that it
is a discovery protocol.  Or even that the web itself is a tool for
discovery.  I suggest it is beyond the scope of this discussion, and my
ability to explain any more than I have, I'd simply invite you to do a web
search and review documentation on linked data, of which there is quite a
bit.

Let me clarify that I think using webfinger for the use case you lay out
would be disadvantageous.  Mainly because of JRD and acct: URIs schemes
have disadvantages.  I suspect ILP will find this out soon after it tries
to gain adoption.

The concept of a super ledger is slightly orthogonal.  It's a fundamentally
more webby way of creating a ledger.  When you use URIs in your ledger, in
many cases there is no need for any additional protocols.


>
> I'm not sure that's scales very well.
>
> On 30 March 2016 at 12:55, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
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>> On 30 March 2016 at 10:02, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 29 March 2016 at 21:47, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Yes exactly.  There can be many super ledgers.  Hence the need for inter
>> ledger transactions.  If a URI is in two different super ledgers it can
>> then act as a connector.
>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 29 March 2016 at 16:47, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 29 March 2016 at 16:32, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 29 March 2016 at 15:48, Adrian Hope-Bailie <
>>>>>>>> adrian@hopebailie.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Have a look what happens when I hover over the link you pasted
>>>>>>>> (image attached)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> firefox automatically translates it into mailto:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> this denotes an email address using a URI
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How? I'm not following how I would send money to a mailto: URI?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a super ledger every entry is a URI, so you just have the mailto:
>>>>>> address as the recipient.  Problem solved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Following which you will do path finding to my ledger.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If ILP is TCP/IP then we're trying to figure out a good way to do
>>>>>>>>> DNS :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 29 March 2016 at 15:26, Xavier Vas <xavier@tr80.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 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"?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Xav
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sent from a mobile device, please excuse any typos
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sent from a mobile device, please excuse any typos
>>>
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