Meeting Notes for 10/04/2005

• We reviewed the general interface idea from last time:
• New idea: content locking by paragraph, by line, The idea being to protect a neighborhood around your cursor (by some measurement)
• New idea: Marking editing locations in the scroll bar on the right.
• Tack argued nobly (a final time) for an emphasis on standalone architecture.
• We began separating the zones of presentation vs. distribution: Presentation => GUI features, widely discussed; Distribution = > IM chatting, voice chatting, text sharing
• We talked about how we want to treat the server-client or P2P structure of dynamic sharing; We decided that a publish-subscribe method would be best.
• We also want recoverability; if the server dies, the peers should recover and construct a new server at one of the nodes.
• We dwelled on latency issues; we will have to deal with these things later.

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