On Wednesday 22 April 2009 16:52:57 Robert Hailey wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 02:09:21 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > >> So we get to the question, what a freenet contact is: A friend or an > >> aquaintance. > >> > >> If you look at myspace and similar sites, you'll see people with > >> hundreds of > >> "friends" which in truth are aquaintances. > >> > >> Also the question arises, which number of friends will be efficient > >> for > >> freenets algorithm: How many people have similar interest? > > > > In terms of routing, the main issues are: > > - There must be a small-world network. Clearly random automatically > > selected > > participants will not form a small-world network, but acquaintances > > probably > > do. I repeat, randomly selected people through any automated > > mechanism WILL > > BREAK ROUTING! > > Are we even sure of that??? > > I know that the whole routing algorithm is based on small world > theory. However, if we load up a sim of a large randomly connected > network, would freenet not operate on it? Perhaps it would sort out > effective and usable locations anyway (simply on graph theory)?
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