FCP - yet another Freenet TLA - ho hum.

So I was thinking about this, and about the debate over whether MSKs and
redirects should be supported in the FCP code in the node, or in the
client.  I can see both sides of the argument, redirects and MSKs are
not nescessarily applicable to all clients, even if they have proved
pretty darn useful in the clients we have implemented to-date.

OTOH, the whole point of FCP is to minimise the effort in implementing
clients in different languages.  From this perspective it makes little
sense to force 99% of client writers to reimplement somewhat complex
functionality, increasing the probability of incompatabilities, and
discourging people from writing clients at-all.

If you are one of those that is philosophically opposed to this, perhaps
it might help if we considered FCP as part of the EOF project (although
this is little more than semantics).

Ian.
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