In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Stone Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
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Fine, but whenever you altruistically send a request to a node (A) where another node (B) would have given you a faster success, you also prevent another node (C) from sending a request to its best candidate, A. So, wouldn't your so-called altruism would actually hurt the network? For shame!
-Martin
I freely admit you are more likely to be right than me! However, implicit in my proposal is that everyone would be sending a *lot* fewer requests, because they would only be sending them to nodes empirically unlikely to QR (for certain, not yet defined, values of unlikely).
Ah, but sending requests is not, *in and of itself*, such a problem, as QR:s apparently (this has not been 100% verified) take up a pretty small portion of bw. It can probably be made even smaller with compression et al. (As far as too many QR:s degrading routing, that's what the rest of the discussion was about.)
-Martin
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