Recently I’ve been putting a lot of thought in to personal event networks and the need for federation between networks and the role notifications play in personal event networks. This is all part of a long journey to understand what I think of as a completely new way of individuals and organizations to interact with each other.
If you read the post example on event subscription, you know that tokens play a large role in routing the events from one network to another. I don’t think of the token as identifying the network since there’s a separate identifier for that. I’ve decided that Rather, the token represents a channel. I like that abstraction. Consequently, in the On Call TA demo, the TAs’ personal event networks subscribe to the events from the class network by supplying an event channel to the class network.
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Tim is in charge of whether and how events are delivered. He manages the channel, delivery, and response while the publishers of these event choose the content.