Here's an incomplete thought:
Throw out HTTP from web services and replace it with Spread.
Spread is a cluster-oriented messaging protocol that seems to be well suited for P2P communications.
It's just crazy enough to work!
Spread packets not spreading
johanvdb on 2003-01-29T00:32:05
Spread uses multicast
... so you'll need a multicast routing piece of software (mrouted) if you want to do stuff with it
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Still intersting for clusters though
... I'm in the process of testing this with the perl bindings to spread
... seems *very* promising for writing cluster service scripts
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