> From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > My design would use most of the Internet (10^9 P2P nodes). Messages > would be > natural language text strings, making no distinction between documents, > queries, and responses. Each message would have a header indicating the > ID > and time stamp of the originator and any intermediate nodes through > which the > message was routed. A message could also have attached files. Each > node > would have a cache of messages and its own policy on which messages it > decides > to keep or discard. > > The goal of the network is to route messages to other nodes that store > messages with matching terms. To route an incoming message x, it > matches > terms in x to terms in stored messages and sends copies to nodes that > appear > in those headers, appending its own ID and time stamp to the header of > the > outgoing copies. It also keeps a copy, so that the receiving nodes > knows that > they know it has a copy of x (at least temporarily). > > The network acts as a distributed database with a distributed search > function. > If X posts a document x and Y posts a query y with matching terms, then > the > network acts to route x to Y and y to X.
The very tricky but required part of creating a global network like this is going from zero nodes to whatever the goal is. I think that much emphasis of a design needs to be put into the growth function. If you have 50 nodes running how do you get to 500? And 500 to 5,000? And then if it goes down from 50,000 to 10,000 fast how is it revived before crash? Engineering expertise, ingenuity + maybe psychological and sociological wisdom can be used to make this happen. And we all know that the growth could happen quickly, even overnight. Then once getting to 10^9 nodes they have to be maintained or they can die quickly and even instantaneously. Having an intelligent botnet has its advantages. Once it's running and users try to uninstall it the botnet can try to fight for survival by reasoning with the users. You could make it such that a user has to verbally communicate with it to remove it. The botnet could stall and ask things like "Why are you doing this to me after all I have done for you?" User:"sorry charlie, I command you to uninstall!" Bot:"OK let's cut a deal... I know we can work this out..." John ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=72911975-ce1dcc
