On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 05:36:01PM -0400, Evan Daniel wrote: > > After a little thought, I've decided that IRC connections probably > exhibit at least some of the small world properties required for good > routing, so it might not be as bad a way to get connections as some > have feared. People tend to get on to exchange noderefs, do so with > several people, and then get off. This means that any two people you > get connections to this way are more likely than average to have > exchanged references -- the basic small world criteria. Also, since > it seems there is correlation between times people are on IRC, that > would also advance the small world criteria -- people who are on at > similar times are more likely than average to exchange refs, and this > is a transitory property.
You're thinking of scale free networks, not small world ones. Scale free networks rely on having a few people with loads of connections and many with few connections. -- 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/20060406/b5c3f773/attachment.pgp>
