ARKs would be extremely helpful in improving the efficiency of the network for people with 24x7 nodes whose IP addresses change relatively frequently.
Is the following correct?: An ARK is actually SSK@<node key>/<node address>, contents of which is the new node address. Since we never need to look up a node address from just the node key, this saves a lot of time messing with pseudo-updating. When Fred's CP for a node falls sufficiently low (or it backs off?), it looks up the above URL to try to get the new address of the node, if it succeeds, it replaces the node address. Oskar said in January that ARK = SSK@<pubkey>/<counter>. Is there any reason to use a counter? If you use a counter, you have to store the counter for each reference, and ideally include it when sending the pubkey/address pair through FNP. Any other major problems preventing implementation of ARKs, apart from lack of skilled-developer-time? _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
