XMLStore

The paper http://www.itu.dk/xmlstore/XMLStore.pdf sections 1-3 give also a good background for Askemos internals.

Section 4 differs in so far as the Askemos does not yet implement any automatic selection of hosts to support places. This decision is understood to belong to the policy level because it reflects users trust in server operators. See http://www.askemos.org:9080/Askemos2002-en.pdf page 7 on byzantine protocols in a P2P world. Otherwise Askemos implements the left part of Figure 3 page 5, while the directory exists for each place in Askemos, with the special place "public" for the initial social contract of the network.

Otherwise the "one node per entry" strategy seems interesting, but an insertion speed of appro.x 40 nodes per second would kill Askemos performance. Futhermore XMLStore indicates garbage collection problems. doesn't it?

The project is discontinued by mid. 2003.