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On 31 May 2006, at 04:51, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 11:06:18PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 29 May 2006, at 04:29, Matthew Toseland wrote: >>> We're simply not ready to implement opennet. Oskar has shown no >>> interest >>> whatsoever in it, and without a sound theoretical basis we can't and >>> won't do it. >> >> I'm not sure what this means. We have shown to a reasonable degree >> of certainty (although not a mathematical degree of certainty), that >> if you create connections between nodes through which requests are >> routed to the eventual destinations of those requests, that a small >> world network topology will emerge. > > Oskar isn't sure how to do it; He may not be, I am pretty sure since I have already done something very similar once in Dijjer. > he said for example that with fixed > locations it will work. A reasonably stable darknet will have essentially fixed locations, but even if it doesn't, most location swaps will be between locations close to each-other. Greedy routing is pretty robust. > I am not willing to deploy opennet until we > have solid simulations of it, and we have dealt with any serious > issues, > and we are reasonably confident with darknet. Of course we should simulate it, but at this time I am not aware of any showstopping problems, I think the path towards implementation of opennet is pretty clear barring unexpected discoveries in simulations. Ian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEfdLgQtgxRWSmsqwRAsU4AJkBPsvXZ5WrBPWW9FPoadnk3HzTRQCdEAqA eIgdj2tmZE2CwPT8RuDqca0= =JmT2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
