You can't punish nodes that go over quota, because then people will simply connect from multiple identities, and take up more than their even share.
Freenet has never been particularly concerned about preventing selfish behavior - and it hasn't really hurt us. Networks that have obsessed over the theoretical problem of leaching, such as MojoNation, seem to choke on their own complexity before getting off the ground. Poo-pooing a potential solution to load-balancing because it doesn't solve a problem that Freenet has *never* tried to solve seems a bit silly and nitpicky.
You can't expect nodes to stick to the quota either, because if you do, the surplus capacity from unused quota that you talk about won't be recycled, with no nodes to recycle it TO.
? Surplus capacity can be given to nodes which are close to using all of their existing capacity.
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