[jdev] decentralized omniscience

[Justin Karneges]

On 03/29/2013 09:55 AM, Kevin Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Justin Karneges <justin at affinix.com> wrote:
>> The reason I bring this up here is to discuss some protocol. I think all
>> that is really needed for a system like this to work is for the smart entity
>> to act as a proxy.
>
> Is this the same idea as the BC inbox, where you request lots of feeds
> and you have a local service that massages them to send to you?

I'm not familiar with BC inbox but it sounds similar. The tricky part is 
making sure the smart entity in the middle (the "inbox" or such) has 
access rights to the feeds. For example, if the feed is private but has 
granted access to your JID, then you'd need a way to have access granted 
to the inbox JID as well. Does BC have a solution for that?

My suggestion is to generalize the approach of having one entity act on 
behalf of another.

Justin