At a university I used to attend there was a real demand for a
filesharing and chat program to operate between students in the dorms.
They have been using Direct Connect for years, but it's really a poor
solution. Someone has to be running and administrating a hub, users have
to hassle with accounts, and nobody outside the firewall can get any
access to the thing at all. They also had to manually police against
people connecting through dialup, as they would slow the filesharing for
everybody. The file transfers themselves were rudimentary at best.
I looked to KDrive as a good solution. Based on overnet/eDonkey
technology, KDrive relayed realtime chat so people outside the firewall
could participate, and file transfers were much more intelligent.
Unfortunately development of KDrive came to a halt soon before it was
sufficiently completed.
But yes, I think there would be a good deal of demand for similar
functionality. With a web of trust handling access to the network it
would be even better. I'd suggest using a global namespace setup so that
members of the group can all contribute files that appear in a shared
filesystem.
~Chris
Matthew Toseland wrote:
In other words, what we have to do to build a large darknet is provide
IM and filesharing functionality, as Michael Rogers said. Local sharing
of indexes and possibly of whole files, local sharing of bookmarks and
blogs, local chat, etc.
If we provide strong incentives for people to add darknet peers, then we
can quite safely implement an opennet as well.
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