On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Mark J Roberts wrote: > Kevin Atkinson:
> > *) Will allow anyone to anonymously post content to the network > > An exception to your previous rule? Posting content will be done in a similar manner as freenet. That is when someone posts content other nodes will store the content in there datastore therefor allowing anyone to post. > > *) 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. Posting messages will not involve updating someone elses keys. Instead it will involve posting a signed message and associating with it a tag which will identify where the message belongs. Nodes that post an extremely large number of message to a particular board will silently be ignored. Search queries will be handled is much the same way queries for keys are handled so that large number of similar queries will only be handled by nearby nodes. Updateable keys will only be allowed to be updated every so often (with the so being defined when a key is created) and will only be able to be updated by there creator. > > *) Will try very hard to keep all but the most unpopular content from > > falling off the network. > > How, pray tell? I have an idea of how this will be done but I have not worked all the details out. Basically before a node deletes content it will check to see that other nodes have the content in there datastore. If there are not enough nodes which have the content it won't delete it unless it is truly unpopular content that has been around for while. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
