---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:34:26 -0500 From: Zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mnet-devel] discussion on infoanarchy.org
There is some discussion on infoanarchy.org. (See the "comments" section after the review.) http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2003/2/22/13049/9989 An anonymous poster wrote: It's really quite a pity that Mojo Nation croaked. They were just about the coolest and most feature-rich system of it's kind, leaving the likes of Freenet in the dust. MNet, a scaled back (some might say, "more realistic") version of Mojo Nation, is still cool, but it's not nearly as ambitious and, as such, I wonder if it will stand out from the crowd or be overlooked as yet another P2P net. Here is a copy of a comment that I just posted: Mnet vs. Mojo Nation vs. other systems none / 0 (#5) by Zooko on Mon Feb 24th, 2003 at 12:30:14 PM GMT (User Info) http://zooko.com/ In a sense, the reason Mnet v0.6 actually works (for storing and downloading files) is because I've explicitly pursued a policy of eliminating those myriad ambitious features from Mojo Nation in order to concentrate on the core goals. It's taken over a year to eliminate features and rewrite the core download component so that Mnet v0.6 works as well as it does! Now that the codebase is smaller and the feature set is reduced and the design is simpler I hope user-visible progress can be a little faster. Another reason that development is going better nowadays is that we have measurements of the behavior of the network. "You can't improve what you can't measure." As for Mnet's place in history, I will say first of all that I'm not too worried about being overshadowed by other more successful projects. Even if Mnet is always obscure, then perhaps the "competitor" projects that become really ubiquitous will learn something from Mnet's successes and failures. Or perhaps Mnet will just serve as a "backup" in case the more prominent projects fail. If the backup is never needed then it was still a worthwhile effort to provide it, for safety. (This is only with regard to freedom-preserving projects like Freenet and GNUnet. I am not at all willing to sit back and allow centralized or censorable systems to dominate.) Having said that, Mnet is still a very interesting project in 2003. Mnet is not a "share my files" system like all of the current popular p2p networks, it is a "decentralized filestore" system, like Freenet, Oceanstore, GNUnet, Chord File System, and others. Among "decentralized filestore" systems I think Mnet and Freenet are the only ones that are actually deployed on multiple unrelated end-user machines. (I would be happy to learn otherwise.) There are lots of exciting developments in the works for the next version of Mnet, and if any hackers out there are interested in participating, please contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. One development that we are particularly excited about is interoperating with other networks through standardized interfaces. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ mnet-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mnet-devel
