On Tuesday 27 Mar 2012 19:31:13 Robert Hailey wrote:
> 
> On 2012/03/27 (Mar), at 12:06 AM, Steve Dougherty wrote:
> 
> > I hope to investigate that this summer as part of Google Summer of
> > Code! Are there metrics to focus on?
> 
> The most prominent would be:
> * CHK success rate from seed nodes should be 100% (or at least no different 
> from a common non-seed node)
> * there should be no "classes" of seed nodes (e.g. busy ones working & 
> lesser-ones not)
> 
> There are also less clear indicators:
> * announcements prematurely ending through some seed nodes
> * announcement rejection rates
> * network fracturing/reachability
> 
> > Would you be willing to contribute analysis,
> 
> I'd be happy to detail the theory and supply a patch (though both might be 
> more readily available through the list archives)...
> 
> In a nutshell, it amounts to the "valid" paths (from the seed nodes into the 
> network) by virtue of being traveled by the announcement are consumed by the 
> invalid/fledgling nodes (as that's where they get hooked in). The depth-first 
> notion intends to solve this by replacing the "deep" connections and not the 
> shallow ones that the seed nodes rely upon (and has a strong theoretical 
> analog to insertion requests).

If it can be tested empirically we should try this (although probably we want 
more data gathering first).

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