I have heard a lot about Freenet's emergent behavior and would like to
understand just what mechanisms in the code make this happen.
1. How does specialization occur? Specifically, how does a new node's
datastore begin to focus in one or a few particular areas?
After that, how does routing specialization develop? Do nodes prefer to talk
to nodes with similar DS specializations?
2. How does DoS resistance work? According to the website (I think), if you
have some evil nodes inserting megabytes of nonsense and some other evil
nodes requesting it, eventually they will move close together in the network.
What algorithm makes this happen, and won't the few nodes now between them
still suffer?
3. Recently, I saw a message about how NGR will know whether to go to a fast,
unreliable or a slow, reliable node. Is this some complicated result of the
estimators? How does it know which to go to for a given key? Is key size part
of the routing calculation? (If not, it probably should be.)
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