Kevin Atkinson:
> Although I didn't say it before I envision my network working by nodes in
> constant communication with each other so that every node has a good idea
> of what's on the network.  My original implementation will be based on
> every node knowing what's own every other node.  After I get that working
> I plan on adding fancy routing so that nodes won't actually store the
> contents of every other node but will be able to know which nodes to
> content in order to find a particular key.  They were be lots of redundancy
> in the routing so that the network will continue to function even if parts
> of it go down.

Any broadcast is dangerously expensive. Even if they are only
necessary when a new node joins the network, the cost could be
significant.

What amount of broadcast-related bandwidth used at each node do you
consider to be acceptable?

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