Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:56:49PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > I have spoken to some of the guys providing this funding, they are
> > well aware of Freenet, and I am hopeful that they consider us a
> > good target for funding.
> > 
> > One thing that would *really* help in this regard would be to have
> > a working demonstration of radio over Freenet, remember that these
> > are the people behind radio stations like Voice of America so
> > audio communication is something they really understand.
> > 
> > Toad did some work on this a while ago, but it was put on hold
> > while we worked on NIO and NGR - now that these are in-place, it
> > would be cool if people really started to look at radio over
> > freenet once again.
> 
> It needs much better working routing. If streaming over Freenet
> works, we KNOW that routing has gotten somewhere.

Well, let's see.  How can we fit streaming within the current Freenet
framework?  Off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of
options:

1) Just have a really long-lived insert of a file that keeps getting
longer as the stream goes on.  Clients can either retrieve it from the
beginning or request it starting at some offset from the beginning.

2) Insert a chain of files, each of which corresponds to say 15
minutes of audio.  At the beginning of each is a pointer to the next
one, so that you can start requesting it in the background while you
listen to the current one.

Thoughts?  Are there security problems with having a request persist
for a long time, as in option 1?  Other problems or ideas?

theo


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