On Monday 11 August 2003 08:57 am, Some Guy wrote:
> A node learns about the specialization of its
> neighbors and vis versa. Will all of a node's
> neighbors have about the same "opinion" of the node's
> specailization?
>
> The first answer I'll hear is "YES" of coarse. A well
> integrated node will wind up being good at a
> particular keyspace, and all its neighbors will know
> this.
>
> But wait, consider the fact that people aren't out
> requesting random keys (though the search keys may
> "look" random). Consider this senerio with 4 nodes
> {A,B,C,D}.
>
> Both A and B sepecialize in keyspace X. C and D
> request from A and B. C tends to have requests for
> freesites about cats, and likewise D gets them for
> dogs.
>
> It seems posible to have a network where C has learned
> to get data from A and D from B. A has a cache full
> of kitty pics and B has one full of doggy pics.
>
> C would have reason to believe A is better than B in
> keyspace X.
> D would have reason to believe B is better than A in
> keyspace X.
> Therefore, how good A and B are in X is "subjective".
Why is that a problem?
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