On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Ian Clarke wrote: > Possibly. One important point to accelerate a node's ability to learn > about the network is that when a node sees a reference (perhaps in the > DataSource field of a DataReply) and it has statistical information (a > RTE + other data) about that node, then it adds it to the reference, > possibly replacing statistical data which may have been there before. > This means that from the moment a node learns about a new node in the > network, it should already have a good idea of its characteristics - > rather than spending hours and hundreds of requests probing it itself.
So, you're saying that the notion of a reference should be expanded to include the referred's routing stats, along with the usual signature and address and so on. Is that correct? Makes sense, I suppose. Except that every node in the network presumably occupies a unique position in its topology. Your node's estimation of another's routing ability will necessarily be different than my node's estimation. Wouldn't this matter? I suppose any information will be better than none at all. Or would it? > We should also consider having such information added to seednodes.ref > files so that when nodes first "come up", they already have good network > knowledge (although this may be dangerous in a situation where everyone > gets refs from hawk and thus all end up with hawk's specialization to > begin with). It will be a good day when Freenet growth doesn't rely on hawk so much. (If that isn't the case already.) -todd _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
