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July 22, 2004
Teepee
One of the primary thrusts of our work at CN Labs will be a new kind of internet-scale event notification service: an application-layer router. Just like there's an IP packet format at the network layer, there ought to be a new standard that unifies the welter of application-layer protocols: smTP, htTP, fTP, nnTP, and more.
TP, a Transfer Protocol, merely provides a best-effort delivery service for named, MIME-typed bags of bits. Rather than using IP addresses, those names are the endpoints that identify multiple services.
If I want a $5 increase in IBM stock price to pop up an alert in my browser, I ought to be able to request something like
"send all messages about http://nyse.com/IBM?delta>5
to javascript://rohits-laptop/window1/alert('sell!')"
There's a lot more to this idea, whether you call it bringing pub/sub to the web, or bringing programmable agents to mail, or some other unification of those messaging middleware modes. Watch this space to see what we can pull together...
Posted by admin at July 22, 2004 04:54 PM