[sugar] Efficiently sharing content across mesh

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Jun 28, 2007, at 6:12 , Dan Williams wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:29 -0700, Steven W Riggins wrote:
>> Does mesh do any compression of data sent across itself?  In other
>> words, is there a centralized system for sending a document from one
>> laptop to another?  Is that compressed by the OS, or should we pre-
>> compress it?
>
> No, the mesh is just another network like wifi or ethernet, strictly
> Layer 2.  It's up to the activity to use the network as best it can  
> for
> it's particular requirements.

I thought there were Tubes? OMG Tubes!

- Bert -