On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:53:09AM -0500, david at aminal.com wrote:
> 
> My preference would be to create an identifier that is suited to
> the needs of Freenet, and just use the Internet to get from hither
> to yon, without relying on it to tell us anything about who or what
> is *at* hither or yon.

That is my personal preference too, but many things are my personal
preference that just can't happen. There are a lot things I keep hearing
we must do:

- we must resolve addresses from an internal node address space
- we must have some form micro payment system
- we must get perfect anonymity
- we must have a moderation systems for search results / namespace
- we must have links rated by capacity
etc etc ad infinitum

but nobody ever bothers to tell us how any of it can possibly be done.

As far as the address space is concerned, we have these options:

- use DNS or another centralized database.  
- use the ARK system I proposed which should allow for some recovery as
long as addresses shift at a reasonable rate.
- combination of the above

Ideally I would love to have a system were a node is identified only by
it's public key and each node does a lookup through some perfect system to
figure out how to send to it. But for those of us whose noses are actually
in the code of this system trying to make it work ideally is a long way
off.

> 
> 
> David Schutt
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Freenet-dev mailing list
> Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
> 

-- 
\oskar

_______________________________________________
Freenet-dev mailing list
Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev

Reply via email to