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authorCarlo von lynX <lynX@time.to.get.psyced.org>2016-02-16 05:41:21 +0000
committerCarlo von lynX <lynX@time.to.get.psyced.org>2016-02-16 05:41:21 +0000
commit7ba7524b484e4c3efebb075ad53b96a9b64efa0a (patch)
tree5a6557c1a6f8e108026d57f6eaa1b58184ad66ca
parent4ada8e1740bd025c629e11437adb179f327f857e (diff)
src/psyc only implements the lower routing layer of PSYC
-rw-r--r--src/include/gnunet_psyc_service.h17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/gnunet_psyc_service.h b/src/include/gnunet_psyc_service.h
index d31f9c50a8..4a99b001a7 100644
--- a/src/include/gnunet_psyc_service.h
+++ b/src/include/gnunet_psyc_service.h
@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@
* - PSYC defines standard variables, methods, etc. This
* library deliberately abstracts over all of these; a
* higher-level API should combine the naming system (GNS)
- * and standard methods (message, join, part, warn,
- * fail, error) and variables (action, color, time,
- * tag, etc.). However, this API does take over the
- * routing variables, specifically 'context' (channel),
- * and 'source'. We only kind-of support 'target', as
+ * and standard methods (_converse, _notice, _request,
+ * _warning, _error etc) and variables (_action, _color,
+ * _time, etc). However, this API does take over the
+ * routing variables, specifically '_context' (channel),
+ * and '_source'. We only kind-of support '_target', as
* the target is either everyone in the group or the
* origin, and never just a single member of the group;
* for such individual messages, an application needs to
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@
* implementing defaults for standard methods and
* variables might be called 'PSYC-std' or 'PSYC-high'.
*
+ * In PSYC terminology this is simply called the "PSYC
+ * routing layer" and the abstractions, for instance in
+ * psyced, are quite similar. The higher one is called
+ * "PSYC entity layer." In the text rendering of the
+ * protocol the two are separated by an empty line. See
+ * http://about.psyc.eu/Spec:Packet and related. --lynX
+ *
* @{
*/