Should darknet and opennet be semi-separate networks? IMHO we will need some sort of mechanism for dealing with the case where we have two networks, with limited connectivity between them. These would be "semi-separate" networks. This can occur with two darknets; the Chinese darknet and the Euroamerican darknet would probably have few links between them. But it may also be the case with darknet and opennet.
The solution is for requests to travel first in the local network, and then, if they are not satisfied locally, to travel to an "escape route" and search the other network. Thus, requests in the chinese network would search locally first, and then if that failed they would search the wider network. Inserts would go to both networks. Since there is a limited escape capacity, some requests will terminate within the original network. The reason I suggest this for darknet vs opennet is this: - The optimal routing algorithms for darknet and opennet may not be the same; on darknet, location swapping is crucial, but on opennet, it is unnecessary. - The load limiting algorithms proposed for darknet will need considerable adaptation for opennet. - There is no real reason to expect the two networks to make any sort of sense topologically when put together. Does this assume that the external network is bigger? Maybe; opennet will be bigger than darknet for the foreseeable future... It can be used even if they are not; if they are of equal size, the escape mechanism is sensible, it's only when the network on which the request is running is much bigger than the one it is going to that it is a problem. In which case there may be many attached networks. We don't want requests to multiply, so we have to forward a request to only one. That could be the network closest to the node which fails to find the data, or it could be randomly chosen... Is this hopelessly naive? There are probably attacks against it... -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060814/a2a1df39/attachment.pgp>
