Re: [freenet-devl] Re: Fwd: Some musings on Freenet

[Ian Clarke]

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:11:10PM +0100, Adam Langley wrote:
> Hopefully, under 0.4/0.5 with the announcment system, nodes will try
> to position themselves at their conter-of-keyspace (as found by the
> annoument protocol). The network should route requests to them because
> the initial links to them will be for the same center.

I don't think that nodes should try to artificially encourage a
particular epicenter.  The existing system should make nodes specialise
without artificially boosting this effect - which I suspect would have a
detrimental effect overall.

Ian.

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