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Discussion on: What is the most potentially-revolutionary software currently being developed?

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Rolf Streefkerk

They have created everything from scratch, this project is on going now for over 10 years.

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Tanami

so they made a BGP replacement? it looked to me like it all runs over the normal internet...

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Rolf Streefkerk

yes it does run over the regular internet, but it has created it's own autonomous distributed network

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Tanami

I guess you don't see the problems with this? running over IP space not owned by the users?

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Rolf Streefkerk

many of these type of systems work on the basis of user provided nodes and there are many systems in place to deal with data duplication, network errors, (un)availability of nodes etc.
Hence, they're working on this for over 10 years. It's complex obviously