On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:28:11PM +0100,
Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
a message of 11 lines which said:
> what do you mean by "mutually distrusting" in this context?
In distributed systems, "mutually distrusting" means they are not
under the same rule ("not in the same AS" would say a BGP user), and
they can play dirty tricks to each other. For instance, two registrars
of ".com" are "mutually distrusting" so a protocol between registrars
MUST NOT assume they will be nice to each other.
Coordinating two actors in a distributed system is difficult enough
but, if they are mutually distrusting, it becomes... daunting.
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