From f5c031f54babf99b1d4618690e4eaf509c53cfdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zooko <>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:51:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add distributed introduction

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 |[#ShareMigration Share Migration]|Medium|any mentor|
 |[#CloudApps Cloud Apps]|Easy–Hard|[Jack Lloyd](http://www.randombit.net) or any mentor|
 |[#WebDAV WebDAV]|Medium|[David-Sarah Hopwood]mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org or any mentor|
+|[#DistributedIntroduction Distributed Introduction]|Easy|[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]mailto:zooko@zooko.com or any mentor|
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@@ -80,6 +82,10 @@ Required skills: HTML and JavaScript for web applications. For other tie-ins, wi
 
 Implement a WebDAV front-end for Tahoe-LAFS so that files and directories stored in a distributed grid can be accessed by operating systems (including Windows, Mac, and Linux) and applications that speak the WebDAV protocol. For details see #451 which describes what the Tahoe-LAFS web server does now, how this differs from what a WebDAV web server does, and how to get started experimenting with the relevant source code.
 
+# Distributed Introduction
+
+Implement a protocol for distributed introduction, thus removing the only remaining Single Point of Failure (SPoF) in the Tahoe-LAFS system. For details see [ticket #68](/tahoe-lafs/trac-2024-07-25/issues/68#issuecomment-102558) which describes the distributed notification algorithm and points to the relevant source code.
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 # Mentors