>That word "feedback" seems to imply that specialization information does not travel >"one way".
Correct - the speed with which the requested data is returned is the information passing back to the requesting node. >Assume there were no feedback. �All my neighbors would essentially randomly pick what >they >considered me to be speicialized in. �Probably none of my neighbors would pick the >same thing, so >there would be no "convergence". �Sure one neighbor could insert an object to me, >because he >thought I was specialized for it, but the others would have no reason request the >object from me. >Such a system wouldn't work. Which is why I believe the specialisation is picked based on the Node reference, or some other globally unique and agreed upon, value. Therefore, all nodes immediately know what the specialisation is, because they all calculate it based on the same value. [ cruise / casual-tempest.net / transference.org ] _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
