On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:05:28AM +0100, Toad wrote: > The main argument put forward at the time was to prevent the network > from dividing into islands, or to stitch it back together when they did > form.
Yes, however there has never been a single known instance of this happening, either in real life, or in simulation, and frankly it seems fantastically unlikely in practice. Even with a node that just as 50 references, the liklihood against the network splitting in two would be (very very very roughly) about 1/2^50, or - in other words - 1/1125899906842624. Now, that would be assuming random interconnections, and if-anything, I suspect that Freenet would be even less likely than a randomly connected network to split in two. Bottom line, the whole random routing thing was a solution to a problem that nobody ever observed, and in all liklihood - would never actually occur in practice. 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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