----- Original Message ----- From: "toad" <[email protected]>
> > An ARK is used to look up the address, thus an address can't be one of the > > things needed for it. > But the current protocol sends the network address along with the public key. > Which we will have to do anyway in announcement. What is the advantage of not > sending the current network address of the node? I was under the impression that > the SOLE purpose of ARKs was to allow semitransient nodes to participate fully > in the network. The ARK is used to look up the ip of a semi-transient node after the ip has changed. You *could* use address for the value, but what happens when the ip wraps at some point and the network rememebers the two different values? A counter-based scheme doesn't have any issues with wrapping. You can't use an address. -Mathew _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
