On Monday 15 September 2003 18:59, Some Guy wrote: > > This all reall sounds like the job for an > > application level deamon. The > > node/network have the job of storing data, and IMHO, > > that is all they should > > do, and do it well. Everything else should live in > > user-land. > > IMHO "the node/network" does something more than store > data; it routes. That's acutally the most important > thing it does.
Routing is a part of the storage/retrieval process, and as such, storage and routing are inseparable. > If it does this well, there may be > other things the network will be good for besides just > being used as just a dumb cache. I'm sure if you use > your imagination you can think of some. The point is that a "dumb cache" can be used in many creative ways from a higher level. It is counter productive to build such things into the node when it is far more sensible to just handle it on the application level of whatever your application is supposed to do. Gordan _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
