On 8/26/06, diddler4u at hotmail.com <diddler4u at hotmail.com> 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
