Hi, I think without an incentive to contribute, that most people will access Freenet via a client rather than a node. I think Human nature is pretty certain on this one, especially given that there is still a fair premium on bandwidth and a fixed IP address (at least in the UK where I am). So I guess this begs the question - what ratio of clients to nodes will cause Freenet to fail? Can Freenet nodes allow themselves to be leeched off freely? My scheme was an attempt (maybe misguided) to allow nodes to act together to ensure they are not exploited to the point where Freenet breaks down. I'd be interested if anyone has made educated guesses about how many nodes would be required to make Freenet viable and how Freenet's performance would change if a large proportion of these nodes chose not to participate in data storage. (Waaay beyond my maths...)
Degs -----Original Message----- From: Oskar Sandberg <[email protected]> To: freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net <freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 02 May 2000 12:40 Subject: Re: [Freenet-dev] I had a mad idea > >I don't see the point of this at all. This is just a going to make the entire >network a downward spiral in performance. The prisoners dilemma doesn't really >relate to this situation at all. > >In the current network, a node that does not reply to requests will rather >rapidly by forgotten completely by the rest of the network. I am convinced this >works well enough (possibly even to well) at filtering out such nodes. > _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
