On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:08:13PM +0200, Ruud Javi wrote: > >Do we want semi-opennet support? This would be a way to connect, with > >mutual advance consent, to peers of our direct peers? (There would be > >measures taken to ensure that we don't connect to peers of their direct > >peers). > > Well, I am not sure but I am not a fan of it. > > Semi-opennet to me sounds like the worst of two worlds. The idea of darknet > is that you need tot trust your neighbors, but you are pretty safe to > everyone else. I think a semi-opennet would give a less safe network, > because people are connecting to people they have not added them selves. My > guess is that people would turn it on because it would make Freenet faster, > while it would also make it less safe for them imho.
Well, the idea is simply to provide more connections for those who only have a few friends, by making their node automatically connect to nodes belonging to friends of their friends. This should improve reliability and speed at the expense of security. VolodyA was pushing this idea on Frost. > > Further, you would still need to add some connections, so this would not > bring in the big user group that is looking for an opennet-version of > Freenet .7 at all. Right. > > If you have some special reasons/ arguments for this semi-opennet, please > post. Reliability. Speed (to some degree). It may be better to have a way to introduce other nodes over node to node text messages, in order to add mutual friends? Perhaps nodes could have a flag "you can show me to your peers", which if set would expose that node to its peers; users could then send a message to it... this is intended as a way to add extra connections. Or perhaps searching keywords over nodes within a hop or two? > If you want we could discuss about if there should be an opennet in > Freenet .7 , and how it should look like. I have some other ideas to get > people to freenet .7 that wants an opennet. Unfortunately I am already > seeing a few weak points, so other idea's might be better :) > > greetings, > Ruud -- 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/20060628/e007faaf/attachment.pgp>
