hello, I'm starting a project at my day job to deploy a gossip protocol implementation. part of my initial work is to evaluate existing implementations.
being loosely familiar with Cassandra, I read http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureGossip and have looked over the related code a bit. is there interest in breaking out the gossip-related portions of Cassandra into a library that could be reused by other projects? I work on a team that is ready and willing to contribute heavily. we'd just need some guidance as to how to structure the Cassandra subcomponent(s) and properly integrate them with the builds, tests, etc. here are a few examples of functionality we're looking to add: 1) hierarchical state - our use case is cross data center gossip, where we don't want every node in the 2 clusters communicating, but do want a node from cluster1 to send a summary of the cluster's state to cluster2, and vice versa. essentially I'm talking about rolling up the state of multiple nodes into a single "virtual" node 2) mutual authentication - nodes verifying the identity of other nodes before gossipping 3) encryption - encrypted traffic, especially for the cross data center case any opinions on this? thanks in advance for any feedback! -matt
