On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Thomas Leske wrote:

> Dan Merillat wrote:
> >... unless it comes back as DNF, in which case they answer "Yes".
> >Basically a "I have this, but let's let the 'owner' know it's popular"
> >scheme.  Better to translate it to an InsertRequest, though.  That way,
> >if you get a collision, great, the data is still there.  If not, you
> >send the data both ways, up to the "best" node and down to the node
> >requesting it.
> 
> But you can not answer an insert with a DNF. The insert would waste 
> bandwidth.

No, but you can answer an insert with a collision.  If you don't get a
collision, follow up the insert.

I forgot one bit that makes it not work though: I can't "spoof" a
DataFound request from another node, right?  It's signed using that
node's key?

So it wouldn't help pass on the original specialization

--Dan

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