Ian has convinced me that there is no point in having a separate darknet, or running tests on a dark subset of a hybrid.
The reason for this is that a real pure darknet in China, or even in the West should freenet become illegal, would have a radically different topology to a subset of a hybrid, or even a pure darknet, constructed now. Therefore the only way to validate the design is to make 0.7 as good as possible, make sure it is reasonably easy to use for people in china and other "interesting" places (full, transparent support for alternate charsets, regardless of which tool you use to insert a site, is important; not having an easily blocked fingerprint is vital; internationalizing the web interface would be really cool but I don't think we have any mandarin speakers!). A hybrid has several benefits: - Those who can get several dark connections, and don't want to be harvestable, can do so. They can also introduce their friends behind the Wall manually, even if the open part of the network is actively being harvested and blocked. - Those who just want to get onto the network can do so. - Once somebody has got onto the network, if he wants better security, he can get some dark connections and switch to pure darknet mode. The main outstanding issue is how frequently we should do path folding. If it is too slow, it will take too long to converge. But if it is too fast, then oskar's routing algorithm won't be able to keep up. Is there any way to determine an optimal time short of alchemy? -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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