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You mentioned the problems with CAP theorem. Did you investigate methods to use eventual consistency in AP system?

• api 12y ago
  With eventual consistency "eventual" becomes a long time with a big network. Either that or the bandwidth requirements become massive. It would be an example of choosing security and decentralization at the expense of efficiency.
  • CMCDragonkai 12y ago
    Would it be possible to make zerotier tunable so in some networks you care about efficiency, in others you could make it eventually consistent. I know there are lots of different methods for eventual consistency that could be used and compared for performance.
    • api 12y ago
      Tunable means there's now something else people have to understand, which means nobody will use it.
      • CMCDragonkai 12y ago
        I'm sure the zero-conf can be default. But for some custom enterprisy work or projects, having something tunable for eventual consistency is something I would use.
        • api 12y ago
          Multicast presently does have some tunable parameters, but so far they all have acceptable defaults and are hidden. I will probably expose them under an advanced tab in the future. So I didn't mean to be totally dismissive... My point was just that every tunable parameter a user has to interact with loses you an exponential number of users.