On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 05:58:24PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 03:21:20PM +0100, > Loic Dachary <[email protected]> wrote > a message of 100 lines which said: > > ... > > > The simplest setup could be a central server delivering > > certificates. > > But wouldn't it bring back to Seeks exactly the problems of > centralized search engines, it tried to avoid?
For ethical and esthetical reasons (full decentralization is neat & fair), Seeks architecture would benefit from not relying on a central server. Under the hypothesis that what you refer to as "exactly the problems of centralized search" refer to authority over the search results, even if Seeks were to rely on a centralized certification scheme for building the search groups, this would not affect too much how it avoids the pitfalls of centralized search. Seeks aims at improving user control over their searches and results they obtain, most notably by securing their search profiles and experience on their own machines. The overlay network allows them to regroup and then share fragments of these profiles. In my view, as long as the profiles remain decentralized, Seeks' purpose remains unscathed. Most notably, if the certifying authority were to lose its legitimacy, side rings could emerge and take over on higher ethical grounds and with data loss on the users' side. Em. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
