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Information Utility Breakout Expeditions Meeting 8/16/1999
Path to Success Requirement Application that can demonstrate it Interesting Questions / Challenges Platform That Can be Built Expeditions Diverse OS
Complementary SubProject Fit IceBerg • Each has an independent path to success • Powerful multiplier if they play together • whole class of new questions • class of storage vs. degree of replication • speculative rivers via erasure codes • common issues / challenges • delegation of trust vs accessibility svc Ocean Ninja DDS DB2 CFS I-store Millennium Expeditions Diverse OS
Requirements of any information service • Storage • transmission • location - how do you find it? • naming - what do you call it? • Presentation • protection • reliability / availability • management Expeditions Diverse OS
Key issues • Need to think of each object as data and code • At the very least • access interface • indexing interface • what about transcoding • Reciprocal trust • many ways for a host to verify that client applications are not malicious • much harder for client to verify host is trustworthy Expeditions Diverse OS