Chris Studholme wrote: > [...] It should be desirable to not have new nodes > integrated into an existing freenet too quickly. Nodes should have to > demonstrate their ability to stick around for a while before becoming well > known nodes.
Yes. I think that one major risk of malfunction of the network would be to send inserts to transient dialup nodes, because such inserts sent with shorts HTLs might eventually be quite impossible to retrieve if the few nodes the insert was sent to were all dialups that might never come again or have a very poor availability. For this very reason, I think that Freenet should allow insert only to nodes that are usually up for long periods. Maybe it could be thought of having nodes send inserts _only_ to other nodes that have been known to their routing table for at least 24 hours and are still around, this showing that the destination node is not a dialup workstation that will vanish within 10 minutes... Maybe dialup stations could be eligible for inserts as well, but such inserts would be managed as random "replicas" and not counted in the main HTL system. This would both ensure reliability, and allow even dialup workstations to play their active role in the network. > Alternatively, a node can speed up its incorporation into > the freenet by issuing lots of inserts. Yes. Besides this, it might be nice to have some kind of possibility to tell other nodes "I'm present and active" without needing to actually insert dummy data ;-) > Assuming most ISPs will want to operate a freenet node as they currently > do with usenet servers. Not so sure about that. Many ISPs are mainly occupied with doing big business, and wouldn't give a damn to take any legal risk with a thingie such as Freenet, at least as long as legal cases haven't shown whether or not running Freenet nodes could create any kind of legal risk in their respective countries... > ISPs will provide the address of their node to > their clients so clients will know at least one freenet node. This is all > they should need to get started. That's what may eventually happen in a couple of years when Freenet will be such a must-have protocol running all over earth, that not any ISP will think it's kind of problematic, and when it will become a "marketing must-have", such as mail or news for an ISP... michel at bouissou.net _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
