Well, he seems to be saying that you can actually route within the
restricted routes bloc - in the previous email, he said that it would
"depend on the profiles"... I'd like to know how. Is it simply a matter
of route it locally if possible, route it to A if you have to, and
randomly pass it to a well-performing node?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:33:52PM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2005, at 13:49, jrandom at i2p.net wrote:
> >>Well, my stock answer is that I2P is harvestable, and this is the
> >>fundamental problem that we seek to rectify.
> >
> >Hrm, but for the reason's we've discussed over this epic thread,
> >your stock answer is not correct.  I2P's restricted route topology
> >isn't something new, its been on the roadmap as I2P 2.0 for the
> >past 2 years.  You need a new stock answer ;)
> 
> I tried to find more info on your restricted routes approach, and  
> from what I can gather, I2P would collapse if any more than a small  
> subset of the network elected to use restricted routes.  In contrast,  
> Freenet 0.7 should happily deal with a case where 100% of the peers  
> linked exclusively to trusted peers.
> 
> As such, it is rather disingenuous to argue that I2P is not  
> harvestable just because a small subset of the peers in the network  
> can remain hidden, the vast majority of the peers in I2P will and  
> indeed, must remain harvestable for the network to work.
> 
> Ian.
> 
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