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Isolated groups of agents

While any given Yenta agent should not communicate with all other such agents at the same time, it is important that any given agent be reachable somehow.

There is no apparent way to guarantee the complete transitive closure of all agents into one community. Indeed, firewalled sites may not allow their agents to join the greater whole. Nonetheless, it seems suboptimal for many isolated clumps, or islands of agents, to exist.

It is still unknown how common islands will be.


Lenny Foner
Last modified: Wed Dec 7 20:53:15 1994