That's absolutely true- I love the Darknet model, but I think it'll end up creating a lot of slow links between individual darknets. If they only have one person in common, getting from link A to B will be slow, and fragile.
On the other hand, If most people in Darknet A only trust each other, but also trust a few friends which have Opennet connections, each of those friends is a link to any other Darknet with has the same characteristics. Essentially, If you have group A, which is only Even numbers, Group B, which is only Odd numbers, they aren't going to be linked, except on 0 (Stretching the analogy a bit, but stick with me), if even 10% of the even and odd numbers were opennet links, it would be a MUCH more robust inter-connection. The people who are Odd, or Even, but NOT darknets, benefit in that they can talk to one another easily, without directly exposing themselves to the opennet. -Colin On Aug 29, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > This is not true. A global darknet is feasible, as I have explained: > National barriers, and even language barriers are by no means > absolute, > and to the extent that they affect the network they can be dealt with. > If Freenet provides something of value, we can make a large darknet. >
