Andrew Rodland <arodland at noln.com> writes: > On Monday 09 December 2002 10:21 pm, The FLOG Index wrote: > > transient node, if they participate in sneaker net their node will be > > full of all kinds of stuff they never requested. > The problem is that this isn't a good thing. Unless the network knows to look on your node for some content, or it's coincidentally next to some keyspace that your node is authoritative on, that content might as well not be in your store. This is the same problem with any kind of permenancy for datastores; if the references to the data don't correspond to where the data is, the data is useless.
> Just think of it as a way to stir up datastores, and as a supplement to more > traditional methods. Sneakernet would be a way to get random content > distributed randomly. Since there is no regard for routing, it means that > content that otherwise wouldn't have ended up in a certain part of the > network will. That sort of influence, besides helping out with availability > (you need some compromise between reliable routing and fortunate 'surprises), > will help keep routing from stagnating, which is really an important thing. > routing is already a wildily changing beast. > And, as flogdude mentions, it does help with plausable deniability. I like > that, since I have to run a transient node most of the time. > I like the effects of plausible deniability, but I can't see too much benefit to a request jumping from real freenet to sneakernet because of the horrible delays, although it's a nice way to hide the identity of the initiating node, if sneakernet requests were routed by real-world people-connections (you would either have know who a certain CDR was going to, or sacrifice a *lot* of storage on the CDR by burning messages for everyone it could be for). > Anyway, I'd definitely like to see this happen. I'm not asking the dev team > to > do it (I don't think flog-guy is either), but we're just trying to throw some > ideas around, since most of the people who know this sort of thing are around > here. :) > > Anyway, > Cheers > --hobbs > I think it would be amusing to implement, but highly impractical and requiring pre-made channels of exchange. Thelema -- E-mail: thelema314 at swbell.net Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
