> > Icaching would be more like a market where sellers looked at what they > > have in-stock, and only purchased new items that were similar to what > > they already have, more-or-less regardless of which items they were > > actually seeing a demand for. In this analogy, there is a serious risk > > that the market as a whole will slowly degrade in its ability to meet > > consumer demand. > > Even if we base it on the distribution of successful requests? Or even > the distribution of all incoming requests, successful or not?
Well, that may provide a "way out" for nodes that have self-specialized in an area for which there isn't a market (or where the market is over-served), but I suspect that it would be at-best an up-hill struggle. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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