> Ian Clarke wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > However, with what we have learned over the past few months, we need to
> > consider that NGR isn't ready for primetime and just throwing it in at
> > the deep-end to see if it would swim hasn't really worked.
> >
> > There is also a cold financial reality here - we are barely keeping
> > afloat with my regular appeals for donations to our existing userbase,
> > and it is only going to get more difficult as time goes by. Only a
> > release can generate sufficient donations to get us away from this
> > precipice where we almost run out of funding every few weeks.
> >
> > Thus we need a release, we have a lot of innovation in the current
> > codebase that isn't tied to NGR (OCO, NIO etc), but the release can't
> > contain NGR until it is working properly. I think, therefore, it
is
> > logical to spend a bit of time ensuring that the old routing still
> > works, and produce a release on its own network that is the default
> > people download. It makes sense for our users, it makes financial
> > sense, and it relieves the core developers of the time-pressure to make
> > NGR work - this is a pressure that I certainly haven't enjoyed and I
> > suspect that the same is true of the other devs.
> >
> > Everything here is up for discussion, if the consensus is that we should
> > give NGR more time to sort itself out then I can live with that, but we
> > need to take a step back and have this meta-discussion or risk lending
> > weight to those who accuse us of ignoring our users.
>
> Here's where I think we stand w.r.t. getting NGR working:
>
> 1. We probably should go with Toad's idea of dropping the HTL system >in&nb
sp;favor
of a timeout-based system. This is a radical change, and >needs to be thought-out a bit more before it is implemented. However, I >would think we should be able to finish the design "on paper" in less >than a week.
If radical changes are going to be made it is a good opportunity to borrow the best aspects from GNUnet, (including their economic routing model, and the ability to host permanent specific files).
What's more is there is no need to start from scratch to design anything "on paper" since it�s already done; taking the best parts from open source is one reason why it's so good.
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