Yes, that is what I meant. Evan
On 4/6/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFENVv4HzsuOmVUoi0RAmAZAJ9vJr/NwxbDGIBi/QNAmfWw0C+UjwCgqRmR > +KA5iJeY4wWP71RLfZirfqw= > =Rgrh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > >
