Fellow bitheads, I have designed a superior network file system. Sun and Novell will be proud. I just discovered freenet on Friday, and tomorrow (Monday) I am hoping Ian will contact me. We have the same goals my friends. Our ways of getting there are a bit different, but our political views and technology are on the same path. I'm about to publish this design, within a few weeks, and when you guys see the features I've got working (on paper), I think Uprizer may just assimilate me.. I've got patent(s) to keep Microsoft away, I've got trademarks to keep claim jumpers away, I've already spent $15k on legal fees, and quit my job, and am working on it full time. I'm a network engineer, I decided not to get a cisco CCIE because I already had the killer billable hours. I've been in computer for a long time (too long). I wish I could provide a URL to the design at this point, but I cant. I'm hoping to talk to Ian first. Below is an abstract which explains my goals: A CASE FOR A GLOBAL FILE SYSTEM, VIA PERMANENT CACHING, LOCATION-INDEPENDENCE, AND CENTRALIZED PSUEDO-ANONYMOUS AUTHENTICATION 4-20-01 When I first learned networking, about a dozen years ago, one of my instructors clearly defined what he considered to be the Holy Grail of the field. Since then, I've come to understand why he regarded it as such. During the last decade, the Internet has grown exponentially, and networking's Holy Grail has become more desirable than ever. If this design proves valid, this is that Holy Grail. I didn't invent any of the designs goals, they were already clearly defined for me (thanks Charles). Today, Internet Service Providers are overburdened by the wasteful nature of the web, and peer-to-peer technologies such as Gnutella and Napster. I use both programs, and have observed A LOT of my own traffic is international. People from all over the world download from my computer, 24 hours a day. I understand networking well, I know my ISP looses money on me, because of all the bandwidth I waste. And yet, I'm just one drone, out of the entire Internet. There exists an 80/20 rule; 80% of file accesses are for (the same) 20% of the files. Imagine how much money is wasted by all of us, and how long that hourglass stays onscreen, while the same files, travel the same routes, over and over again. It can't continue at this rate. The bubble has burst, the .com's have been corrected, and ISP's are no longer adding bandwidth without question. They must now cost justify doing so, and they can't, because no matter how much they add, it will be wasted. Yes world, the leeches have sucked our bandwidth dry. In my opinion, MFS solves these problems, and will obsolete NFS, HTTP, FTP, Gnutella, and Napster. The software industry will be delighted with the security features; copyrights become a decryption issue. There are many challenges that will keep my dream from happening, but I think I've already engineered past the major ones. Please read the document titled "The Dream" to understand my ultimate goal. Then read "MFS Summary" and "MFS Scenarios". Let me know what you think, I'm looking for sponsors and partners, such as EMC, Novell, Sun, Cisco, Oracle, IBM, Linus Torvalds, etc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
