Hmmm okay, yeah. I misread. On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:23:04AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On 6 Apr 2006, at 08:04, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >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. > > I think he is describing clustering which is what small world needs. > > Ian. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
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