From 318f6a3d02eb8d27064b54da05d944e544423f3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zooko <>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:03:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] start transcribing white board photo

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 There are several ways that people might want to use Tahoe:
 
-(This Wiki page was inspired by the following discussion on the tahoe-dev list: <http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-June/000022.html> )
+(This Wiki page was originally inspired by [this discussion on the tahoe-dev list](http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-June/000022.html))
+
+1.  groups of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing
 
 1.  Allmydata, Inc. operating a storage grid on corporately owned servers
 
-2.  groups of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing
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 3.  system administrators who want to experiment with it for backup
 
 4.  Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the
 customer's computers
 
 5.  a large, diverse ecosystem of selfish or mutually suspicious people and organizations who want a storage service with extremely high reliability and availability
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+![](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/attachment/wiki/Doc/usecases.jpg?format=raw)
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+Use Cases
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+| | | | | | |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+|*name*|*number of nodes*|*administrative domains*|*node capacity*|*node availability*|*churn*|
+|friendnet|2-10|many trusted domains|mixed|it depends on the friends...|low|
+|sysadmin|2-10|one domain|uniform|uniform|high|low|
+more to come...