Please justify your assumptions. There is a lot of data on social networks that says that is not how they look. I see no reason to believe the social networks a freenet darknet would be built upon would be different.
Evan On 8/26/06, urza9814 at gmail.com <urza9814 at gmail.com> wrote: > Yea, but you don't know all the nodes in the network, you just know > the ones your connected to. So if one of those links between the > networks goes down, half your downloads stall out and die. And > wouldn't that put a pretty big strain on certain computers? I mean, if > you get this global network of small networks...90% of the data you > request will probably be on another 'network'. The number of > connections between these networks is going to be a lot smaller than > connections within the network. Therefore the computers that connect > between them are gonna have a much greater strain on them than the > ones that are only linked to one 'network'. And if these individual > networks fully connect and integrate...you have an opennet. Except you > have to physically get your node connections from someone else. So you > have an opennet with much fewer connections, which doesn't seem like a > good thing. > > > On 8/26/06, Evan Daniel <evanbd at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Support mailing list > > Support at freenetproject.org > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > > Unsubscribe at > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > > > > -- > <HTML> > <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=57";><img > border="0" alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" > src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/blank.gif"/></a> > >
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