Re: Thoughts on Discovery

On 30 March 2016 at 17:02, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 30 March 2016 at 14:51, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> No, I didnt say that
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 dont know but maybe this article is a good starting point:

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215

It predates linked data I think, and hopefully explains the motivations of
graph vs web, and how the graph is linked and used to discover new
information.


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>> I'm not sure that's scales very well.
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>> 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:
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>>>>> On 29 March 2016 at 21:47, Adrian Hope-Bailie <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?
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>>>> Do I need to query every super ledger to find the account I'm looking
>>>> for?
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>>> 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:
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>>>>>>> On 29 March 2016 at 16:47, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com
>>>>>>> > wrote:
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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> 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:
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>>>>>>>>> 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.
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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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>> 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
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>>>>>> Sent from a mobile device, please excuse any typos
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