One point, to be clear, is that nothing here will prevent those that wish to only have their node talk to people they trust, from doing so. We are talking about opennet for those that want the convenience, and darknet for those that need the security.
Ian. On 14 Aug 2006, at 22:24, Ian Clarke wrote: > I really don't understand all of this fretting and hand-wringing > about opennet. Its basically nothing more than a vastly better way > for people to do what they are already doing today with hideous > (but regrettably necessary) kludges like #freenet-refs and http:// > refex.s-coding.nl/. > > Opennet has the following advantages over what people are using now: > > - Several orders of magnitude more convenient for users (allowing > ease of use approaching or exceeding mainstream P2P apps) > - Decentralized and scalable > - Should lead to vastly better network topology > - We control it so we can take measures to make it more difficult > to corrupt > > Disadvantages? Relative to what people are using now - none that I > can think of. > > Some people may wish we lived in a fantasy world where everyone was > willing to go through the trouble of carefully establishing trusted > darknet connections, but we don't live in this world, and denying > the clear advantages of opennet to our userbase will not lead to > that fantasy. Ian Clarke: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Revver, Inc. phone: 323.871.2828 | personal blog - http://locut.us/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060814/3f857e82/attachment.html>
