On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:08:04PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2003 12:22 am, Todd Walton wrote:
> > > If there are other nodes on the network that you trust, you could
> > > exchange this information with them, and have a much better idea of their
> > > specialization. Also this could also provide a basis for a
> > > non-alchemistic gage for what data should put in the store and what
> > > should be removed.
> >
> > You switched horses.  Some Guy was talking about routing times, and you're
> > talking about specialization.  If you're talking about swapping
> > specialization info with other nodes, then why not just look in the local
> > datastore at what keys there are?  You wouldn't need to do what Some Guy
> > was talking about.
> 
> Fair enough. While all of the above could be done without collecting that 
> data, it would be better if it was available. I say this because it requires 
> a much lower level of trust to give someone your "10 points" routing estimate 

Does it? With enough observations an attacker could reconstruct your
estimators perhaps... this may be a flaw in the idea I suggested just
now on this thread.

> than to trust them with the exact keys of all the data in your store. Also if 
> NGrouting provides the mechanism for where the data requests come from, 
> doesn't it make seance to use those same mechanism to determine where it is 
> stored? Yes, strictly speaking it is not necessary, as you can already 
> compute relative specialization and popularity of data, however ultimately 
> you are trying to approximate what you will be seeing requests for in the 
> future, and the time estimates provide that. I would agree however that this 
> would not be better if it meant using a lot of CPU time or a huge amount of 
> memory, however I don't think that would be the case.

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