-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19/07/12 18:42, Tony Arcieri wrote: > To bootstrap a new peer, you can request popular content from one > of your friends, and serve it to the rest of the network. Your > friends can then indicate you have the content available and direct > other peers to obtain it from you.
Thanks for the further explanation, Tony. Bootstrapping through social links and then expanding through recommendations sounds like a really strong approach. > I'm not sure clustering is bad. I think ideally the system > clusters around groups that are both interested in the same content > and have a favorable network topology between them. I wouldn't say that clustering is bad per se, but I'm worried that if you only have positive feedback the system will end up with inflexible clusters that are mostly determined by the initial conditions. For example, if I join the network and download a recipe for chicken soup, I'll start making connections to other peers that share chicken soup recipes. It will become easier for me to download similar files, without getting any easier to download dissimilar files. So the next file I successfully download is likely to be similar, further reinforcing my connections to that cluster. But chicken soup is only one of my interests. If my first download had been a horse ebook instead, my experience of the network would have been quite different. Is some kind of mechanism needed to avoid that kind of path dependence? Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQConEAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMhR0H/jTazy9CwTTKJCkBrbvzl67j R6UIpOQiBc6qoH2qavI5Ijrx8UDO0eQHFfaweEZ6hsQhWwiZhiKFmra3lQJEhR/4 c0LXPd+6Y9pBnuQPmdcnW2FC6EOyCSzcD2FLrRHzM2AbjnkFG7W8p71lmfI+w+R7 UupsN6UmYm0mlc2XLyjYPIv4aeQPpXSRMb340rccqJ28La9/5QJibYfqT5xfCCMc BdNqMtGkQHkRdq0EW4gMTEpwpTBTnCogAmpsbkXsVZlr3ZZqtCXqFfZikwMDYAuu v9qpEFbWCkZQAMBR7G8+jfWUTyp8RmbMHkUbC0DXsCG5gvCmuGrqTcZO98c3Rfo= =LUN5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
