No, this time I'm not going to point to some guy with 1,000+ RSS feeds in his aggregator. FeedMesh is a nascent attempt at handling all the traffic now generated by sites and individuals collectively creating massive amounts of net traffic by pinging and aggregating and pinging some more and aggregating even more. The basic idea is to set up a peer-to-peer "cloud" to help get a grip on all this traffic:
... A rough sketch of what this would entail is the creation of a single URI for people to ping (feedmesh.org?) which would be backed by the members of the "peering network" via round robin DNS. The recipient of a ping would be expected to validate the ping, make a reasonable attempt to normalize the site name to utf-8, and then pass the ping information to all the other members of the peer network. Instead of separate HTTP requests per ping, it is likely that each member of the peering network will have a socket continuously open with each of other members across which this information will be sent. ...Back to Compendium
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