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On 10 Jul 2006, at 15:07, Matthew Toseland wrote:

> I have outlined 3 criteria under which I would be (relatively)  
> happy to
> deploy an opennet. Others will disagree with my criteria and my
> evaluation of them, but I put them out for discussion.
> I will repeat them:
>
> 1. There must be major benefits to getting darknet connections on a
> currently purely opennet node, and to adding more darknet  
> connections to
> an existing hybrid node.

There already are.  If you run a darknet node you get increased  
security, if you allow your friends to connect to your node as  
darknet connections, then you are helping your friends.  As I said,  
anything beyond this is nothing more than a gimmick.

> 2. It must be easy to add darknet connections.

This is definitely a priority, but I see no reason for it to be a  
precondition.  Darknet must survive on its own merits, if it can't,  
then so be it - but we shouldn't deny opennet to people just because  
we are afraid that people might use it.

> 3. The network must be relatively stable; we need to sort out load
> balancing and storage before deploying an opennet, or we will end up
> debugging far too many things at once.

That is a valid point, but I don't want it to become an excuse for  
eternal procrastination on opennet.

Ian.

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