Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Freenet adding erasure coding? From the Mnet FAQ I understood "erasure > coding" to be the equivalent of FEC, which Freenet already uses.
Yep -- "erasure coding" == "FEC". > [...] Thanks for the explanation about data "floating" in Freenet. That is a very important part of the Freenet routing concept. I'll think about it some more. There is a hypothesis which may be true or false of Freenet (and of other similar networks). I'll call it the "emergent convergence" hypothesis. Definition: "Network-wide routing is 'convergent' if two nodes which have no special relation to one another route the same key to the same node." Emergent Convergence Hypothesis: "If each individual node makes routing decisions based solely on local information, then in the network as a whole, routing will be convergent." The DHTs all come with concise proofs of emergent convergence, although at least originally these proofs were all in a "stable network" scenario which isn't necessarily applicable to real life. It's too bad there is no such proof for Freenet. Regards, Zooko http://zooko.com/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
