Thank you so much Edgar =) [snip] > > > I don't know how the conversation got to the topic > of nodes guessing > other nodes' specialization. This started about > whether a node could > guess what other nodes believe its specialization > is.
I took a temporary steer in that direction to feel the waters for how for sneakernet may negatively impact the rest of the network. I really should of asked directly, do you think sneakernet (in this incarnation) could be abused to cause a dedgregation of network performace? The case of a node operator importing hundreds of megs of new keys and purging his datastore is obvious but is there another method that might be used? [snip] > > The reason I think that trying to model a node's > specialization within > a node is futile is because specialization is a > function of the > routing tables of many many nodes. Since freenet > makes it > purposefully difficult to model the global routing, > trying to build > functions on top of code that attempts to do this in > realtime looks to > me like the height of folly. > I agree - doing this in realtime is not a good idea. I was thinking of a procedure like this: Assuming an individual just received his new sneakernet media and is ready to do an import. Fred, on a permanent node, needs to figure out which keys on that cd are going to help him. At this point, prior to the import, analyze the datastore and look for the statistical anamolies (this is not a realtime process, nothing is kept in memory in fred, etc) - use this information to guess which keys might be good to pull off the cd. Of course it is not perfect but is it close enough to be of any use? If we can't come up with a system where importing keys into a permanent node makes sense I say we just forget that part of it. Sneakernet still has a good use for transient users in that it can provide them plausable denibility. Permanent node users in this case only export information into sneakernet and import it only if they feel like it. This way it is of mamximum use to the entire network. I am confident that I can spearhead a team to code this up, it seems like a simple enough modification to fred. I also know a couple people who are very interested in seeing this happen as well as getting active in freenet development. I would need, at most, some support in understanding fred's internals. I don't expect you guys to write this for me but would you accept a patch to integrate into fred? Thanks for your help Edgar, Tyler ===== AIM:rllybites Y! Messenger:triddle_1999 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
