What is IDEON-wg? †IDEON(Integrated Distributed Environment with Overlay Network)-wg is a working group for researchars, who try to approach a goal of WIDE project -- ``Integrated Distributed Environment'' -- using Overlay Network as a tool. One can say Overlay Network to mean many system. We, IDEON-wg, doesn't focus systems like VPN which extends Layer-3 /4 of legacy OSI-model. Instead, we keenly focus application-layer overlay network like IRCNet or MTA-mesh with SMTP, or DHT-systems like OceanStore?, Chord and others. IDEON-wg is now working to categorize application-layer overlay networks. Our goal is to build overlay network as common infrastructure of various applications. For details, please contact us at ideon-request@wide.ad.jp . WG Charter †IDEON focuses on research, development and operation of overlay networks as an infrastructure to realize free and creative rendezvous, location and routing. Research topics include, but not limited to, the following:
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