I'm new to this, so I apologise if this has been discussed before. I am, however, very supportive of the effort.
It seems to me that one of the things you are doing is replacing a routing/physical source address with a content-type descriptor. Now this raises a number of issues: 1. A strong convention is needed for the descriptors, so that there is some chance of finding the content. I'm not sure that this can be left to chance, and maybe at least the top levels need to be defined - maybe something like the Dewey Decimal system. 2. Some way of finding out what content exists for a specific category, for example an intelligent search agent. 3. Some form of discipline for the namespace. First-come-first-served has been a disaster for the web, and some mechanism is needed to prevent abuse, for example by flooding all of a category with placeholder documents. 4. "distance" needs to take into account strength of the connection 5. Can streaming media be supported? If so how? Jack Lang Chief Technologist ntl: _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
