General Architecture

General Architecture

Requirements/Motivation+use cases

Use Cases

1. Distribution of new version (e.g. MandrakeLinux10.2)
2. Changes in existing version (notifications/events)
3. Late comers ? want to update their old version while being disconnected for X time
4. Third party packages/repositories

Outline (phases)

Outline

1. Subscription to events (to master channel and to secondary channels)
2. Feeding/Seeding of packages (Push)
3. Completion (Pull)

?Implementation?

1. Event Notification system
2. Subscription Clustering
3. Multicast directions
4. Persistent Storage
5. File Sharing/Search

Open Issues

Architecture Open Issues