On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:54:16PM +0100, Some Guy wrote:
>  --- Nick Tarleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > I have heard a lot about Freenet's emergent behavior and would like to 
> > understand just what mechanisms in the code make this happen.
> 
> I'll do my best to answer these guys for you.
> 

> Key size is small; you probably mean the size of the data asssociated with the key.  
> A requester
> usually has no clue how large the data is until he get's it back.
> 
> Size is corrected for when we calculate how long it takes a node to reply.

Wrong. The node, and everyone else, know exactly how large the key is,
from the URI. The node uses this information in routing (NGRouting
anyway).

-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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