A fun programming exercise is to implement a basic gossip membership protocol. You can even simulate this locally in one program, so you don’t have to run it over a network of computers. Remember that the basic idea of gossipbased dissemination involves periodic, pairwise communication, with the information exchanged in such interaction being bounded. When two nodes interact, the state of the node (i.e., the node’s current view on the network) being most out of date will be updated to reflect the state of the other party. Try to implement a very basic version of such gossip protocol in any programming language (adding a visualization is even better).