I have been a big fan of distributed hash tables (DHT's) for the efficient distribution of information for a few years now. Ever since I first heard about Freenet, really. Freenet itself has given up on much of the DHT concept for various reasons, most having to do with anonymity. Kademlia is another very interesting DHT. Bittorrent uses the Kademlia concept to good effect. But there are much more important infrastructure type issues that could make use of DHT's to dramatically improve the reliability and efficiency of the Internet. DNS is one place where a DHT would seem to be a very good solution:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/codons.php Here is a nice summary of how it all works which I found while googling: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/syslab/courses/csc2231/05au/reviews/HTML/16/0001.html -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com 1-877-MY-COPILOT -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
