Good Afternoon,
As I understand it, the Freenet project has begun a Summer of Code
project to improve load balancing. I'm interested in seeing how
that's going, what the plans are, and how other people feel is the
best method of ensuring fairness across nodes.
I recall that about a month ago, Ian started a discussion on tit for
tat rewards to nodes, which rewarded nodes which were more useful to
the network. I'm curious how people feel best to implement such a
system, now that they've had to think on it, and while Michael Rogers
is working on his new code.
I'm also interested in ideas about how much to utilize highly
developed nodes- I understand that in general, it's better that
things are spread out to as many nodes as possible, but it seems
unoptimal not to max out the bandwidth and CPU of a supernode. If
say, MIT wants to donate a terrabit connection, with 500GB of HD
space, isn't it better that the machine is used?
As I understand things currently, .7 routing doesn't the speed of
returning a block into consideration when looking at where to request
the next one. This probably isn't as efficient as it should be.. I
understand the need to establish the baselines first, but if we're
discussing how to make load balancing work, I imagine we want to keep
multiple ideas in mind.
I look forward to hearing how Michael is doing, and to helping to
discuss plans for the future.
-Colin
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