On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:53:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> > As FROST[-WOT]'s protocol is proprietary the author
> >> > of this document has designed the FRUIT protocol.
> >>
> >> Whoa. WTF?
> >>
> >> Frost's protocol is proprietary?
> >
> >Frost is open source, but the code isn't very pleasant to look at. However, it 
> >looks like FRUIT will be better featured in any case.
> 
> as filesharing is becoming more important within freenet but freenet is not exactly 
> targetted at filesharing it would make sense to define a way to request a file which 
> is currently not present within the freenet so it 
> becomes uploaded by the content provider.

This is futile. Any well known forum will instantly have requests for
everything in the presence of an attacker.
> 
> frost already does this, but as frost's requesting scheme seems to be for use 
> between different instances of frost only that's a substancial drawback.
> 
> FRUIT is a protocol specification with two mail goals: be application independent 
> and be able to indicate this upload requestion in a standardized way while providing 
> informations enabling the client to decide if it 
> wants the file or not (try to prevent uploads when the data will get thrown away 
> later)
> 
> ---~~---
> 
> after saying again what you already know, 
> 
> would you think there is something missing or plain wrong with the current FRUIT 
> spec? i'd like to push FRUIT into a stable state.
> i'd also like to hear if you think if FRUIT is easy to implement for client 
> application coders as i hope it will eventually get implemented in some user 
> programs, or if there could be adjusted something
> 
> ...attached is a slightly revised and up-to-date spec (alpha2) with some typos 
> fixed, MD5 fields, more notes, etc...
> 
> thank you vey much! and have a nice sunday...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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