Is it fair that when 3 nodes might have sent me a vast number of requests, thus overloading my node, that a 4th node which has never asked anything of my node before is refused? Probably not, but how can this be addressed?

The obvious option is to bias QRs towards nodes in proportion to the degree to which they are responsible for the QR being sent. Now clearly, this is an imperfect solution as it relies on negative trust, and there really can't be any reliable negative trust on the Internet. Having said this, while this mechanism might not be impossible to circumvent, it could be enough to encourage developers of high-traffic applications such as Frost to make their users try to be better Freenet citizens.

Thoughts?

Ian.

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