On Monday 28 June 2010 05:39:23 Tom Sparks wrote: > How would a Delay-tolerant network and a Mobile ad hoc network change > freenet's protocol?
This is really a question for the tech list. IMHO delay tolerant darknet is a potentially interesting area for Freenet. This would involve sneakernet (exchanging USB keys), short range high bandwidth transfers between mobile devices etc. It would be routed (allowing access to a wider range of data than what is on your direct friends' nodes). It would rely heavily on passive requests / subscriptions, as well as on requests being relayed over a period of days, whenever friends connect.. It would likely be rather slow, because each hop might take a day or more. It could take advantage of fast links where they are available however (e.g. underground wifi). It would be deployable in places where the Internet is so locked down that Freenet doesn't work. About half the devs think this is not something Freenet should ever deal with because e.g. it would need larger block sizes. But even if it is not Freenet it might reuse a lot of Freenet code. And it would have to be darknet: Data is only exchanged between people who have been pre-established as Friends. That means it is not ad hoc. If you are interested in ad hoc / opennet, have a look at Haggle, which essentially relies on mobile devices being able to broadcast requests for files to everyone in the immediate vicinity, with some opportunistic forwarding iirc. IMHO this is rather risky, which is why I suggest a delay tolerant darknet Freenet system might be possible.
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