On 25 February 2010 12:50, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > BitBlinder attempts to create a closed Tor-based network for bittorrent > > traffic, including a system attempting to assure equal sharing. > > It may end up being ok. But never I understand why create a separate > Tor universe. Sure, if want to only do torrent. But that is may not usual > case and steals resources that could be better put to use making the one > single tor universe bigger. You have to run a relay with their system > so everybody may as just well run one within the single Tor universe. > I question registraton and possible future commercial motivations. > Given client's pki, registration should not be needed, just run the client > and use pubkey as self register/track/accounting somewhere. > And there will be major scale issues to solve, why not cooperate and > do that under Tor namebadge as well.
I think that the choice to use a separate tor network is based on two things: -a desire to avoid overloading the existing tor infrastructure with BitTorrent traffic , and -a pragmatic need to implement the bandwidth `coins' system to ensure equal sharing. And on those notes, I think that there is value in using an independent network. Besides, it wouldn't be too difficult (but still not totally trivial) to after-the-fact switch the BB network onto the primary Tor network; it would be much more troublesome to take BB off the Tor network if it seemed to be problematic.
