[freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-20 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 15:23, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Hmmm, I thought you were arguing that the latency would be unacceptable for a > > message board system? > > I was arguing that you couldn't mix ten-second latency with ten-day > latency in the same system. Usenet

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2008-05-20 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: > Hmmm, I thought you were arguing that the latency would be unacceptable for a > message board system? I was arguing that you couldn't mix ten-second latency with ten-day latency in the same system. Usenet messages used to take several days to reach the furthest

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-20 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: Hmmm, I thought you were arguing that the latency would be unacceptable for a message board system? I was arguing that you couldn't mix ten-second latency with ten-day latency in the same system. Usenet messages used to take several days to reach the furthest corners

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-20 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 15:23, Michael Rogers wrote: Matthew Toseland wrote: Hmmm, I thought you were arguing that the latency would be unacceptable for a message board system? I was arguing that you couldn't mix ten-second latency with ten-day latency in the same system. Usenet

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2008-05-19 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 19 May 2008 20:26, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> Who says we need 8 GB per exchange for it to be viable? Seems to me that > >> even a few megabytes a day would be useful in a lot of places (or a few > >> kilobytes if you can choose which channels to participate

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2008-05-19 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: >> Who says we need 8 GB per exchange for it to be viable? Seems to me that >> even a few megabytes a day would be useful in a lot of places (or a few >> kilobytes if you can choose which channels to participate in). > > Only if it's a broadcast system, and like I said,

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2008-05-19 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: Who says we need 8 GB per exchange for it to be viable? Seems to me that even a few megabytes a day would be useful in a lot of places (or a few kilobytes if you can choose which channels to participate in). Only if it's a broadcast system, and like I said, they can

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2008-05-19 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 19 May 2008 20:26, Michael Rogers wrote: Matthew Toseland wrote: Who says we need 8 GB per exchange for it to be viable? Seems to me that even a few megabytes a day would be useful in a lot of places (or a few kilobytes if you can choose which channels to participate in).

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2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:28, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> Bluetooth? > > > > Even less bandwidth than wifi, no? We need several gigabits (over a range > > measured in feet) for it to be viable. > > Who says we need 8 GB per exchange for it to be viable? Seems to me

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2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:28, Michael Rogers wrote: Matthew Toseland wrote: Bluetooth? Even less bandwidth than wifi, no? We need several gigabits (over a range measured in feet) for it to be viable. Who says we need 8 GB per exchange for it to be viable? Seems to me that even a

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2008-05-15 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: >> Bluetooth? > > Even less bandwidth than wifi, no? We need several gigabits (over a range > measured in feet) for it to be viable. Who says we need 8 GB per exchange for it to be viable? Seems to me that even a few megabytes a day would be useful in a lot of places

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2008-05-15 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: Bluetooth? Even less bandwidth than wifi, no? We need several gigabits (over a range measured in feet) for it to be viable. Who says we need 8 GB per exchange for it to be viable? Seems to me that even a few megabytes a day would be useful in a lot of places (or a

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2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 00:24, Evan Daniel wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Toseland > > >> 2. Most or all Freenet apps assume a few seconds latency on requests > > >> (Frost, Fproxy, etc), yet the latency with the

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2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 00:44, Michael Rogers wrote: > Evan Daniel wrote: > > The major change needed would be a way to request not the specific SSK > > block, but the SSK, whatever CHK it happens to redirect to, and any > > CHK blocks needed to decode the result > > Exactly, so you'd need a

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2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 12 May 2008 23:56, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Toseland > wrote: > > On Saturday 10 May 2008 17:33, Ian Clarke wrote: > >> I see a simple scenario where a "sneakernet" would be useful is in a > >> situation like Burma or Tibet where stuff is happening,

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2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 12 May 2008 23:56, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> 1. The platform for this type of thing is a small mobile device, > >> getting Freenet to work well on an iPhone would be a world of pain - > >> and doesn't buy anything for us > > > > No, to do that requires a

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2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 12 May 2008 23:28, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Hence request priorities, so that the requests for the top blocks go over the > > UDP connections. > > Are you assuming that every sneakernet connection will be backed up by > an internet connection? No, it's

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2008-05-13 Thread Michael Rogers
Evan Daniel wrote: > The major change needed would be a way to request not the specific SSK > block, but the SSK, whatever CHK it happens to redirect to, and any > CHK blocks needed to decode the result Exactly, so you'd need a different protocol, different data formats and a different routing

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2008-05-13 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: >> 1. The platform for this type of thing is a small mobile device, >> getting Freenet to work well on an iPhone would be a world of pain - >> and doesn't buy anything for us > > No, to do that requires a massive amount of short range bandwidth. Phones do > not have this.

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2008-05-13 Thread Michael Rogers
Evan Daniel wrote: > I think flood routing inserts opportunistically is a good idea -- > there's no point in sending out a memory card less than full, and > routed requests / inserts may well not be enough to fill it. My knee-jerk reaction was "flooding doesn't scale", but it's actually worked

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2008-05-13 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: > Hence request priorities, so that the requests for the top blocks go over the > UDP connections. Are you assuming that every sneakernet connection will be backed up by an internet connection? > So the routing code > could be very similar to the current code, but we

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 12 May 2008 23:28, Michael Rogers wrote: Matthew Toseland wrote: Hence request priorities, so that the requests for the top blocks go over the UDP connections. Are you assuming that every sneakernet connection will be backed up by an internet connection? No, it's merely an

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 12 May 2008 23:56, Michael Rogers wrote: Matthew Toseland wrote: 1. The platform for this type of thing is a small mobile device, getting Freenet to work well on an iPhone would be a world of pain - and doesn't buy anything for us No, to do that requires a massive amount of

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 12 May 2008 23:56, Ian Clarke wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 10 May 2008 17:33, Ian Clarke wrote: I see a simple scenario where a sneakernet would be useful is in a situation like Burma or Tibet where stuff is

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 00:44, Michael Rogers wrote: Evan Daniel wrote: The major change needed would be a way to request not the specific SSK block, but the SSK, whatever CHK it happens to redirect to, and any CHK blocks needed to decode the result Exactly, so you'd need a different

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 00:24, Evan Daniel wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Toseland 2. Most or all Freenet apps assume a few seconds latency on requests (Frost, Fproxy, etc), yet the latency with the

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2008-05-12 Thread Evan Daniel
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Toseland > >> 2. Most or all Freenet apps assume a few seconds latency on requests > >> (Frost, Fproxy, etc), yet the latency with the sneakernet would be > >> measured in days. Freenet's existing

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2008-05-12 Thread Evan Daniel
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Michael Rogers wrote: > Evan Daniel wrote: > > > I think flood routing inserts opportunistically is a good idea -- > > there's no point in sending out a memory card less than full, and > > routed requests / inserts may well not be enough to fill it. > > > > My

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2008-05-12 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Saturday 10 May 2008 17:33, Ian Clarke wrote: >> I see a simple scenario where a "sneakernet" would be useful is in a >> situation like Burma or Tibet where stuff is happening, possibly a >> political crack-down, and the authorities

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2008-05-12 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Saturday 10 May 2008 20:53, Evan Daniel wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > >> Ian is of the view that this should be a separate application based on similar > >> principles to Freenet. I'm not. We agree that there are some significant > >> issues to deal with. I am

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2008-05-12 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Saturday 10 May 2008 17:33, Ian Clarke wrote: > > Ian is of the view that this should be a separate application based on similar > > principles to Freenet. I'm not. We agree that there are some significant > > issues to deal with. I am of the view that these networks are mutually > >

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2008-05-12 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Saturday 10 May 2008 15:57, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > We could implement darknet sneakernet connections by exchanging USB sticks. > > E.g. if you meet somebody every day (e.g. a coworker), you could exchange > > (cheap) 8G sticks, plug them in overnight, and then do

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-12 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Saturday 10 May 2008 15:57, Michael Rogers wrote: Matthew Toseland wrote: We could implement darknet sneakernet connections by exchanging USB sticks. E.g. if you meet somebody every day (e.g. a coworker), you could exchange (cheap) 8G sticks, plug them in overnight, and then do the

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: Hence request priorities, so that the requests for the top blocks go over the UDP connections. Are you assuming that every sneakernet connection will be backed up by an internet connection? So the routing code could be very similar to the current code, but we would

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Rogers
Evan Daniel wrote: I think flood routing inserts opportunistically is a good idea -- there's no point in sending out a memory card less than full, and routed requests / inserts may well not be enough to fill it. My knee-jerk reaction was flooding doesn't scale, but it's actually worked

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: 1. The platform for this type of thing is a small mobile device, getting Freenet to work well on an iPhone would be a world of pain - and doesn't buy anything for us No, to do that requires a massive amount of short range bandwidth. Phones do not have this.

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-12 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 10 May 2008 17:33, Ian Clarke wrote: I see a simple scenario where a sneakernet would be useful is in a situation like Burma or Tibet where stuff is happening, possibly a political crack-down, and the

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-12 Thread Evan Daniel
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Michael Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evan Daniel wrote: I think flood routing inserts opportunistically is a good idea -- there's no point in sending out a memory card less than full, and routed requests / inserts may well not be enough to fill it.

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-12 Thread Evan Daniel
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Toseland 2. Most or all Freenet apps assume a few seconds latency on requests (Frost, Fproxy, etc), yet the latency with the sneakernet would be measured in days. Freenet's

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Rogers
Evan Daniel wrote: The major change needed would be a way to request not the specific SSK block, but the SSK, whatever CHK it happens to redirect to, and any CHK blocks needed to decode the result Exactly, so you'd need a different protocol, different data formats and a different routing

[freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-10 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: > We could implement darknet sneakernet connections by exchanging USB sticks. > E.g. if you meet somebody every day (e.g. a coworker), you could exchange > (cheap) 8G sticks, plug them in overnight, and then do the same again the > next day. This would produce approx

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2008-05-10 Thread Evan Daniel
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: >> Ian is of the view that this should be a separate application based on >> similar >> principles to Freenet. I'm not. We agree that there are some significant >> issues to deal with. I am of the view that these networks are mutually >>

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2008-05-10 Thread Ian Clarke
> Ian is of the view that this should be a separate application based on similar > principles to Freenet. I'm not. We agree that there are some significant > issues to deal with. I am of the view that these networks are mutually > complementary and therefore should talk to each other I think the

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-10 Thread Michael Rogers
Matthew Toseland wrote: We could implement darknet sneakernet connections by exchanging USB sticks. E.g. if you meet somebody every day (e.g. a coworker), you could exchange (cheap) 8G sticks, plug them in overnight, and then do the same again the next day. This would produce approx

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-10 Thread Ian Clarke
Ian is of the view that this should be a separate application based on similar principles to Freenet. I'm not. We agree that there are some significant issues to deal with. I am of the view that these networks are mutually complementary and therefore should talk to each other I think the

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-10 Thread Evan Daniel
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian is of the view that this should be a separate application based on similar principles to Freenet. I'm not. We agree that there are some significant issues to deal with. I am of the view that these networks are mutually

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2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Cheng
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thursday 08 May 2008 01:41, Matthew Toseland wrote: >> https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345 >> >> --- >> A typical domestic internet connection has at most 1Mbps uplink. In some >> megacities 100Mbps or even 1Gbps is

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2008-05-09 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 09 May 2008 01:23, Daniel Cheng wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Matthew Toseland > wrote: > > On Thursday 08 May 2008 01:41, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345 > >> > >> --- > >> A typical domestic internet connection has at most 1Mbps

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2008-05-08 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thursday 08 May 2008 01:41, Matthew Toseland wrote: > https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345 > > --- > A typical domestic internet connection has at most 1Mbps uplink. In some > megacities 100Mbps or even 1Gbps is available (symmetric), however it is > unlikely that the bandwidth

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2008-05-08 Thread Matthew Toseland
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345 --- A typical domestic internet connection has at most 1Mbps uplink. In some megacities 100Mbps or even 1Gbps is available (symmetric), however it is unlikely that the bandwidth available in most homes will exceed a few megabits in the near

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-08 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thursday 08 May 2008 01:41, Matthew Toseland wrote: https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345 --- A typical domestic internet connection has at most 1Mbps uplink. In some megacities 100Mbps or even 1Gbps is available (symmetric), however it is unlikely that the bandwidth

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-08 Thread Daniel Cheng
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 May 2008 01:41, Matthew Toseland wrote: https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345 --- A typical domestic internet connection has at most 1Mbps uplink. In some megacities 100Mbps or even 1Gbps is

Re: [freenet-dev] Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-08 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 09 May 2008 01:23, Daniel Cheng wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 May 2008 01:41, Matthew Toseland wrote: https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345 --- A typical domestic internet connection has at most

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2008-05-07 Thread Matthew Toseland
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345 --- A typical domestic internet connection has at most 1Mbps uplink. In some megacities 100Mbps or even 1Gbps is available (symmetric), however it is unlikely that the bandwidth available in most homes will exceed a few megabits in the near