On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:39:52PM +0100, Volodya wrote: > 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. > > > >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. > > > >If you have some special reasons/ arguments for this semi-opennet, > >please post. 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 > > The thing is that a lot of people will have only one entry point, and what > they do is ask their friend to connect them to that friend's friends, which > is more secure then being connected to ubernodes or to random people on > IRC. Think about it, who is closer to you and less likely to turn you in to > LEA or copyright infringement agency a friend of a friend or a complete > stranger?
Could be tied into the "trust ranking" system. If you trust somebody ultimately AND set the flag for friend-of-a-friend connections, then you get these connections. However, it may be more useful to have a way to make permanent connections to friends-of-a-friend, within the network. Once you are on the network it would be good to be able to connect to mutual friends easily, right? > > - Volodya -- 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/20060628/158bd5fc/attachment.pgp>
