(Moved to -chat). On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:42:32PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How can freenet grow to be a global network unless someone in one group > trades connection information with someone in another group? > > Hypothetical - A group of people in England, another in France, another in > Russia, and another in China have grown individual trusted 0.7 freenets. No > one in any of these groups knows someone in the other freenet group, and > they don't want to just advertise in IRC chat to find someone to connect to > because they don't know and trust this as a way to add people to their > freenet. How will these freenet groups become a part of a global network?
These three networks will grow, until people are added who are on more than one of these networks. A lot of people in england know people in France or in China. In particular a lot of people in the US know people in China; according to some this is one of the factors behind China's recent economic success. Now, I'm not saying there are no barriers. Plainly there are cultural, national, language, geographic barriers. It may be that some of these barriers are so huge that we need to adapt the routing algorithm to explicitly divide the darknet into subnetworks, and try requests locally before passing them on to distant networks (networks we have few connections to). But this isn't necessarily catastrophic. And if it is the case then it is something we will have to address whether or not we have opennet, because there are many places where you simply CANNOT USE OPENNET. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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