Re: Conditional Requests to resolve semaphore and confidentiality concerns

On torsdag 16. januar 2020 19:20:55 CET james anderson wrote:
> the suggestion here does not convince any more than #60 did then.

OK!

> as per the comment from 19.june, it remains, that the application which is
> not prepared to model the meta-state and attempts to divine it from the
> incidental store state will have no way to guarantee integrity. 

Admittedly, I do not understand your objection very well. In particular, I'm 
not sure what you mean by meta-state, and therefore, I'm not sure how to 
translate that requirement to the Web world. 

The little I know about meta-states consider N processors that have to 
communicate with each other to maintain a common state over all processors. 
If that is what you mean by model meta-state, could you please explain how 
that could be done on the Web with N>1000 autonomous agents that can be in 
hundreds of states, possibly lie about their state, possibly suddenly get new 
states that they can be in, and communicate over HTTP?

Google Scholar reports only 3160 results for "meta-state", many of which are 
not in computer science, and "meta-state automaton" just 214, so it doesn't 
appear to be a very wide-spread term.

I hope I'm not the only one who do not understand this, in which case I hope 
to be pointed at some n00b documentation, but if it is as esoteric as these 
numbers appear to say, could you please explain it in more popular terms?

Best,

Kjetil

Received on Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:48:44 UTC