This argument makes sense to me, but only so long as there isn't a lot
of spec churn in FNP protocol. Nobody wants to write an implementation
to a moving target.

I think the biggest problem with the Freenet project is they keep
changing the protocol in ways that aren't backward compatible.

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 00:41, Todd Walton wrote:
> On 4/25/05, vinyl1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there any security check to insure that only genuine nodes containing 
> > 100% pure Freenet
> > code are able to connect  to the network?
> 
> No, there's not.  We wouldn't want one either.  Why do all nodes have
> to be "100% pure Freenet code" (which I assume you mean to be "code
> from the Freenet Project")?  As long as it speaks the Freenet Network
> Protocol (FNP) it should be encouraged that others write their own
> nodes.  Fred, which is the name of the node code from the Freenet
> Project, stands for Freenet Reference Daemon.  It's the value of a
> network that communication is reduced to the minimum necessary for the
> desired application, and that innovation is allowed to occur at the
> "edges".
> 
> -todd
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