Read my reply to the other thread.
One point, to be clear, is that nothing here will prevent those that
wish to only have their node talk to people they trust, from doing
so. We are talking about opennet for those that want the
convenience, and darknet for those that need the security.
Ian.
On 14 Aug 2006, at 22:24, Ian Clarke wrote:
I really don't understand all of this fretting and hand-wringing
about opennet. Its basically nothing more than a vastly better way
for people to do what they are already doing today with hideous
(but regrettably necessary) kludges like #freenet-refs and http://
refex.s-coding.nl/.
Opennet has the following advantages over what people are using now:
- Several orders of magnitude more convenient for users (allowing
ease of use approaching or exceeding mainstream P2P apps)
- Decentralized and scalable
- Should lead to vastly better network topology
- We control it so we can take measures to make it more difficult
to corrupt
Disadvantages? Relative to what people are using now - none that I
can think of.
Some people may wish we lived in a fantasy world where everyone was
willing to go through the trouble of carefully establishing trusted
darknet connections, but we don't live in this world, and denying
the clear advantages of opennet to our userbase will not lead to
that fantasy.
Ian Clarke: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Revver, Inc.
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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