Hi, There is an interesting question on Frost, board Freenet, about the new Freenet 0.7 . Would be nice to have the answers.
Freenet 0.7 question & responses: ----------------------------------------------- Hi Frost-friends, Today there is a nice message on the Freenet website, telling that the 0.7-version of Freenet will probably be released with Christmas. Now most of us know that Freenet will become a darknet, so that friends connects to friends. A few questions about this, hopefully you will give me some clues: - If Freenet 0.7 is a Friend-2-Friend network, how will we make sure that everybody is in someway connected to each other. If I post on Frost, will everybody receive my message? - Friends-2-Friends network, has the advantage of more security and the disadvantage that you will have to know people on Freenet before you can join. While Freenet is so anonymous, I don't know real people near me using Freenet. How will I find 'friends' to connect to the network. Do we have to find people in the current Freenet who are willing to give there IP's or not? - How will we make sure that it isn't too hard for new people to join the new Freenet (in 0.7 they will need 'friends' before they can join I think), because more Freenet-users = more content = better (imho) - How many contacts do you need in the new Freenet? If you have only 1 contact, then he will know everything you are doing + you can only connect to the new Freenet if his node is online. Thank you very much for answering! Funor ----------------------------------------------- The main 0.7 network will be as open as the current 0.5 network, so you don't need to join a darknet to participate. Darknet support is intended mainly for users who have to hide their nodes from the main network. ----------------------------------------------- Could you back that up with maby a link to the mailinglists where toad (or ian) says it's going to be like that? For the last i heard was that there is going to be two seperate networks. One "darknet" and one like the one we have today - open. Back to Funors questions (and you might be better off asking them to someone who actually knows aka. someone on the mailinglists, and not some random ass-hat like me or the other people you might find on frost :) First off, you can't be sure that everyone is connected to each other, and that everyone will get a message you post to frost. It is very possible that there will in fact be several disconnected darknets. Hope and theory is that they will melt together, but you can't be sure of this. But i think you can be preatty sure that there will be one "primary" or "big" darknet - so that if you are on that one, everyone who want to, can read your message. And everyone who is not on that "primary" network are not there of own free will. (With the current freenet, you can't be sure that there is not another network out there, that dosn't get you'r frost message, so that's not really a big/new" pr"oblem.) About getting on the network - or having friends there, i have had the same worries, and maby that will be a major problem. But my guess is that there will be a lot of people posting to ./, the mail lists etc. asking for "friends" and if you answer such an "add", you'r not really giving away more info than you are now. Open up your "open connections" page and you will see a lot of ip adresses. Every one of those adresse has just as much info about your node avaliabile to them as some random stranger you choose to hook up your node through on the new .7 network. About getting new users i think you have to be a nice guy once you have gotten onto the network and look out for otheres looking for invites - it's as simple as that. So in that sence you'r questions are two sides of the same problem. How does one get onto the network, and how does one help others onto the network... I think / hope this will come naturally. And maby you have to start thinking of frinds as somthing more than people you have meet and know well. Someone who is in the same online comunity as you will proberly work just as well. The number of connections will be a lot lower than it is now (i have heard - check with a coder to be sure). I'm guessing 5-15 connections. Hope that answeres some of your questions - but again, i'm just guessing here. Get someone to post your questions to the maillists if you want more qualified answers. -- Have fun! Sonax _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
