Suppose that Freenet 0.7 is a success both in the West and in China. There is a large darknet in China (say 10,000 nodes). There is a large opennet in the West (say 1,000,000 nodes). There are a rather small number of nodes which connect to both systems (say 100).
This is going to be a problem. In theory, the architecture is such that the networks will talk to each other as a hybrid. In practice, with the exception of keys which happen to be close to the location of the gateway nodes, these are distinct networks with no common content. There are "border" issues with i2p integration, however, there are major border issues regardless of that as far as I can see. In this particular case - dark/light hybrids - the border is easy to detect. In other cases (e.g. two darknets with a small number of links), it would be harder to detect. In any case, there is a limit to the amount of integration which is possible due to bandwidth issues, but the performance-tiered routing mechanism should be able to provide something; wormholes between nodes of similar values on the two networks are the obvious thing; these can be tried when we fail within our own network. Then if they do find the data, it is cached and we don't need to go across again. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20051015/4d690fc1/attachment.pgp>
