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To: "Luc PY8AZT" <py8azt@dxbrasil.net>, <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Cluster network update - was: Reverse BeaconNetwork - too much success?
From: "David Kopacz" <david.kopacz@aspwebhosting.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:26:02 -0600
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It's a great idea to design a new system, but completely unnecessary.

The existing system already handles connectivity. All that needs to be done to 
stop abuse is to add in user authentication, replication and the ability for 
nodes to reject packets (spots, messages, announcements, etc) that are 
unauthenticated. 

If centralized data storage is necessary, I am sure a few other amateurs, other 
than myself, would donate services to host master authentication lists.

KY1V


Sincerely,

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-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com 
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Luc PY8AZT
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:25 AM
To: K1TTT; CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Cluster network update - was: Reverse BeaconNetwork - 
too much success?

Dave,

You put DXCluster future in perspective. Yes, I agree, This 40 years old 
tecnology developed to run over packet radio has no fixing fo nowadays.

> The only way I can see the existing network going away is to design a 
> new system from the ground up that includes strong backbone security, 
> not too complicated but secure user identification, and all the other 
> features that everyone wants to enable opting in/out of spotting, 
> filters, larger volumes of spots, elimination of bottlenecks and 
> loops, must run on various versions of windows, linux, mac's, must 
> include telnet, rf, web, and some kind of new secure user access for 
> future expansion, must include localized language capabilities and 
> built in translation of talk/announce/comments, use the new non-ascii 
> url system, accommodate skimmer spots automatically, allow Unicode 
> character sets, email and bulletin distribution, emergency disaster 
> overrides, etc, etc, etc.  And then of course all the user logging and 
> other access programs will have to update to handle whatever the 
> authentication system is.  This is obviously not a simple project... 
> and it won't make the

I'm not a Geek (ah, I'm ham radio anyway), but reading this requirements for 
the new network, it looks like something that has been arround for while: 
Twitter network.

So, I wonder if we can use a Twitter API to setup a parallel network to 
transport DX Spots. It is very well docummentaded and integrated it to log 
software won't be hard.
140 caracters is just enough to send a spot, just like it is now.

73, Luc
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