> > I disagree somewhat. I think you should be able to search against > metadata, which means that the nodes need to be able to parse metadata in > order to search against it. They shouldn't need to know what fields are in > the metadata, but they should be able to identify fields in order to match > against them.
"Searching" as you and others imagine it does require that whatever be searched is known to the protocol, that's true. I'm still not at all convinced that any kind of searching is practical or even desirable for Freenet. I'd much rather see nothing but user-supplied indexes with content-hash keyed data, allowing Freenet to dispose of unindexed data through disuse. Something like a search might still be practical, but I'm just not sure yet. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
