Kevin Atkinson: > NOTE: I am posting this to freenet-tech in order to get some > constructive criticism and general ideas. Please do not flame me as I > will simply ignore you.
Your opinion of my criticism is irrelevant to me. > *) Focus more on speed and scalability than anonymity. The goal of > DistribNet is to be as fast or faster than the Web for any sort of > pages with reasonable popularity. Impossible unless you're comparing your freenet's performance to an overloaded web server (which is fine). > *) Data, by default, will go directly from one node to another instead > of having to be routed through other nodes. That's stupid. It wouldn't scale, and it would most likely completely fail because the network would be too static. And let's not even consider how trivial it would be to remove a specific file. > *) Will allow anyone to anonymously post content to the network An exception to your previous rule? > *) The ability for one to share content that is one one's hard drive Have you one shred of evidence that this is anything but useless? > *) Searching and support for "updateable" keys will be build into the > protocol from the beginning. The searching faculty will be > designed in such a way to make message boards trivial to implement. I promise to flood any searching or message board mechanism I can. Inserts are, you admitted, anonymous. > *) Will try very hard to keep all but the most unpopular content from > falling off the network. How, pray tell? > This is because even if 90% of the nodes block say, kiddie > porn, the information will still be available on the other 10% of the > nodes which, if the network is designed correctly, should be more than > enough for anoyone to get at blocked information. Depends on how widely your kiddie porn is cached. I don't know where that threshold will be. > Since they are not encrypted delta compression may be used to save > space. Neat. > If a particular node notices a large number of query for a key > that it does not have it may chose to store a copy in its own > cache therefore providing similar performance benefits that > freenet's routing provides. You should've said that before! You'll have fun finding the right value of "large." Too high and my previous comments apply. _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
