In a sense yes. In a P2P model there is no single canonical wave. All the federated servers would have a copy of the wave. Any server that drops out simply drops out. The isolated server could still server up the wave to its clients if it were still connected. Then when it comes back, it would rejoin the other federating servers.
There are some intricacies here, but that is the main idea. ~M On 6/11/13 7:37 PM, "Dave" <w...@glark.co.uk> wrote: >On 11/06/13 18:48, Michael MacFadden wrote: >> I have drafted up some ideas on a hybrid system. >> Actually I have seen two approaches. One uses a natively P2P protocol, >> which then elects super nodes to act as "servers" in highly connected >> clusters. > >Interesting - so this effectively would allow re-hosting of a wave if >the original host goes off line? > >The underlying OT supports P2P style merging, and there are the >efficiency advantages of having OneTrueHost for a given wave, but if >that host goes offline the wave can be re-hosted elsewhere. > >Dave
