[Babel-users] Babel GUI preview

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

I'll stick to initials since I haven't asked for permission to publish
Real-World identities.

Two students of mine, PJA and AR (who are on this list but haven't
delurked yet) have spent much of their summer developing a GUI for
Babel.  The most interesting bit is the graphic network map,

  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/babel-tool-screenshot.png

Some tuning remains in order to get the behaviour just so, but I have
good hope that this effort will converge onto something generally
usable within weeks at most.  (Of course, it will be released as Free
Software as soon as it's ready.)

Some details: the map above is from the perspective of Huponomos.  The
blue line is the IPv4 default route.  The GUI and Babel are
communicating through a TCP stream, which means that we don't need to
be running the GUI on the router.  The geometry is computed using
a modified spring model, which is what needs some more tuning.

The current working name is ``BabelTool'', which I don't like very
much.  Somebody suggested ``Bab el-web''... which I'd rather reserve
for an HTTP interface.  Any other ideas?

While I'm at it, two other students, YC and LF, are doing some other
stuff which is perhaps even more exciting, but which I don't want to
announce before I'm confident it will work.

                                        Juliusz
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