So I've long been skeptical of the value of the DHT in the real world, often arguing that -- unless anonymity and privacy are critical requirements -- central servers are far superior in every single way.
However, I wonder if the real use for the DHT will be in vast server farms, as suggested by Amazon's Dynamo project: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html I think it starts to make sense there, as we're talking about really enormous scales were central servers truly do start to break down, where churn operates on a geological timeframe compared to between clients, where there are better trust guarantees and fairness is less a problem, etc. Is this common knowledge that I'm just late to pick up on? Any thoughts? -david _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
