Roger Hayter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I take it that specialisation is some function
> of what all the nodes in contact with a given node do in terms of
> their interaction with a given node.  I can certainly live without a
> pretty picture of it.  However, I am worried by the statement that
> there is "no good way to  measure" it.  

To me, specialization is a function of factors across the entire
network; not only does your node have to be good at responding to
queries in a certain area of the keyspace (a subjective measurement if
there ever was one), but also requests for that data have to be routed
to you from other areas of the network.  In an anonymous network like
freenet, t*this* is the part that there's no good way to gather data
on, and thus measure.

> A sort of engineering
> principle springs to mind, that something there is no way to measure
> probably doesn't exist for all practical purposes.  I picked up from
> lurking on this list that specialisation is no longer one of the
> immediate criteria for measuring the success of routing.  

I hope it never was a criteris for measuring the success of routing.
There's a very simple criteria that will measure the success of
routing; how much time requests take.

Thelema
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