first, i agree 100% with david's point that you need a use case. it's 
definitely noble, sometimes worthwhile, and always fun to design general 
purpose infrastructure. without at least one or two clear use cases to guide 
you, though, you're effectively rudderless.

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Gustavo Carreno wrote:

> This is where I need input from the community: Since searches will propagate
> in the way I've described on my first mail and will get back to the
> initiator node via fast routing, vide my rant on routing some paragraphs
> above, is this better or worse that all of the implementations you
> (community) can think of ?

honestly, this is probably the best way that *you* can spend your time. you 
have an idea, but as you've said, not much knowledge of the field. do some due 
diligence and read up on the current state of the art in p2p - DHTs, flooding, 
superpeer networks, gossip, NAT traversal, etc. the p2p-hackers archive has 
links to survey-style papers that provide good overviews of the field.

armed with that, you'll have a better sense of whether your idea makes sense 
or not, and which direction to take it.

-Ryan

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