On 8/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Freenet 0.5 is an opennet. You connect to any random node that happens
>>to be on. Freenet 0.7 doesn't have this yet. In 0.7, there is no main
>>network. There might be now, but the idea of the way it currently is
>>setup is to allow small groups to connect without connecting to
>>everyone else.
>
>That is not true. Freenet 0.7 is designed to form one global network, not
>multiple independent networks consisting of small groups.
>
>Ian.
Ian,
How can freenet grow to be a global network unless someone in one group
trades connection information with someone in another group?
Hypothetical - A group of people in England, another in France, another in
Russia, and another in China have grown individual trusted 0.7 freenets. No
one in any of these groups knows someone in the other freenet group, and
they don't want to just advertise in IRC chat to find someone to connect to
because they don't know and trust this as a way to add people to their
freenet. How will these freenet groups become a part of a global network?
They won't. But your assumptions are off -- there's lots of good
reasons to assume that once a small local network passes a handful of
connected users it will gain a connection to a different network. And
then you have a global network. This is what is meant when people say
0.7 is designed to form a global network -- there is no magic, except
for the underlying properties of the social connections the network is
built upon.
Evan
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