On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:52:17PM +0200, Some Guy wrote:
> --- Tom Kaitchuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > I have tried Freenet, Grapevine, Entropy, GunNet,
> > and even Chord. Although I 
> > don't know the details of all their implementations,
> > they are all good. So in 
> > effect, all three projects suffer form not doing one
> > thing that the others 
> > do, and not having a large network.
> > 
> > I think all three projects could benefit if a single
> > suffocation could be 
> > produced that all three could work towards, that
> > would allow the networks to 
> > interoperate.
> 
> Yeah, I've been daydreaming about this.  If the
> different networks could handle each other's data,
> people would be free to use thier own
> routing/connectivity.  Also it might be possible to
> have different versions of freenet being tested in
> their own subnetwork, but still being live.
>  
> > There are a lot of things that are easy to reach a
> > general consensis on. 
> > (Encryption / routing etc.) Then for splitfiles FEC
> > is the logical choice, 
> > because it is much more sophisticated then anything
> > the other projects use. 
> > However it might be nice to have files that did not
> > need to be part of the 
> > data store, like in GnuNet. 
> 
> I think Freenet's HSK,KSK, and SSK may become a
> standard.  Entropy is evidence of this.

CHK, KSK, SSK. But for them to be interoperable at the URL level, we
need to standardize the exact encryption and hashing schemes... I don't
think that is possible for CHKs with entropy and freenet because entropy
stores documents differently.
>  
> > However the hard part would be comming up with a
> > standard for communications 
> > and metadata. Ideally the protocol would not care
> > about firewalls / nats and 
> > utilize the underlying network as best as possible.
> > I understand Jrand0m has 
> > some ideas in this aria. One would probably want to
> > include some sort of 
> > simplistic search and flooding resistance, borrowed
> > form GnuNet, and TUKs 
> > included in the metadata ala Grapevine.
> 
> Yeah, it does seem hard.  If Jrand0m or anyone else
> has ideas I'd be interested.
> 
> > If someone could even produce a preliminary outline
> > of what this should look 
> > like and submit it to the other projects, I'm sure
> > they would cooperate and 
> > try to come up with improvements. The important
> > thing to remember is this is 
> > not just 'Here's how we do it', but rather an ideal
> > network, even if it 
> > contains elements that you don't know how to
> > implement yet.
> Convincing other people may be hard too.
> 
> I've got an idea that would work for small
> experiemntal networks with just a few nodes.  Maybe
> they could emulate a single super freenet node.  In
> other words let freenet be the "Mother Network".
> 
> Say I've got 100 test nodes, and it takes 1 or 2 hops
> to get to data.  Could I give them all the same NodeId
> and rotate the IP around when introducing myself? 
> This would let the network learn our specialization
> just once.  I could use the subnetwork as a giant
> datastore and be free to experiment with whatever
> routing I choose.
> 
> The problem is that this doesn't scale.  If freenet
> wanted to merge with equally sized networks, I think
> you'd have to keep track on request/post messages
> which networks have already gotten the message.  So
> for example an insert might have flags for {freenet, 
> Grapevine, Entropy, GunNet, Freenet-China, MNet, ect}
> and so that it doesn't get inserted into the same
> network repeatedly.
> 
> Does anyone else what to take a shot at this?
> 
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