2. Definitions

Transport

A method of transmitting MAGI messages from one node to another. A daemon may have multiple transports. They can be viewed like network interfaces on a normal computer. Some transports are point to point while others using local group communication like multicast. Different transports are used depending on the network topology or necessary hoops that messages must jump through.

Dock

All MAGI agents on a node are connected to the same MAGI messaging network. The dock is how they are addressed individually. If a node name is equivalent to an IP address, then dock would share part of its definition with port. Unlike a traditional port addressing, multiple destination docks can be specified. When used like this, they are similar to data tags.