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IRC-Hispano/ESNET paradigms (I)

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Message-ID: <38D0E1B9.44726BC6@argo.es>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:29:29 +0100
From: Jesus Cea Avion <jcea@argo.es>
Organization: Argo Redes y Servicios Telematicos, S.A. - http://www.argo.es/
To: coders@undernet.org, Lista CODERS IRC-Hispano <coders@irc-hispano.org>,
   Lista IRC Hispano <OPs@irc-hispano.org>,
   Lista IRCops ESNET <ircops@esnet.org>, coder-com <coder-com@undernet.org>
Subject: [ops] IRC-Hispano/ESNET paradigms (I)
References: <38C728E4.113637B6@inxpress.net> <38C7B6AD.CAB4D5F9@argo.es> <38C83C1B.648B3190@inxpress.net>

> Sure, tell us about it. :) Can you give us a general description of
> the design, perhaps with things you like about and things you dislike
> about it, lessons learned etc... Anything you feel worth mentioning.

Well, I have a lot of documents online, but only available in spanish. Try:

Summary:

In 1.997, IRC-Hispano was a very centraliced organization. A single ISP was controlling the entire network. It runs all the services, control clones, etc., and it abuse (my opinion) its position.

So I created ESNET.

The ESNET principles are written in a white paper (spanish). In short:

Democracy
Distributed control
No single point of failure
No feature losing/security compromise in splits
Decrease server<->server traffic
Easy membership

In order to achieve its objectives, ESNET needed a distributed database scheme, in order to keep information in all the servers about clone control, channel owner/membership, nick registration, and so on.

In 1998-1999 Christmas, IRC-Hispano brokes; the old "central node" in a side and all the rest of us in the other (we were about 20 Spanish ISP; I was in ESNET and IRC-Hispano simultaneously). The battle was bloody, but we manage to keep most of the users in the "new" IRC-Hispano. The new administration decides to take the ESNET technological improvements to develop a common codebase for both networks. A year ago. Time pases... :-)

To be continued...

PS: New blood came into the old "central node" and now they are inside IRC-Hispano again. Home, nice home.

PPS: Our record, growing about 500 users per month:

     [14:27]  9286 Usuarios de Pico (Sat Mar 11 00:14:16 2000)

PPPS: IRC-Hispano is a non lucrative association composed by Spanish ISPs and cable/telco companies.

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