On 15 Oct 2005, at 17:15, Matthew Toseland wrote: > 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).
If the number of connecting nodes is that small, then yes, there will be a problem since that will not be consistent with a small-world link distribution. Hopefully in reality inter-country connections will be more consistent with small-world than that. > 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. Why? What is likely is that the "west" will be in one part of keyspace, china will be in another, and the nodes which link the two will be in-between. Sure, if there are only 100 nodes linking the two then they might get overloaded, but that is where caching comes in. I would like to see a simulation of this kind of situation before we conclude that it will be a problem, I suspect it might not. Ian.
