Tyler Riddle <triddle_1999 at yahoo.com> writes: > [snip] > > > > > And I assert that any presumptions the node makes > > about what other > > nodes believe its specialization is are inherently > > flawed. > > > [snip] > > I really appreciate the fact that you are taking some > time to discuss this issue. I'm glad that atleast one > person with the knowledge required to proclaim this > idea as plausable or impossible is willing to have a > hand in it's fruition or destruction. > No problem. The more people willing to work on freenet, the better. (even if oskar doesn't like his precious bandwidth being "wasted" by this conversation)
> It is my understanding that it would only be bad for a > node to influence it's routing to other nodes based on > it's concept of what it's specilization might be. There's no way (that I can think of) to change how you route requests to other nodes based on what you percieve your specialization to be. One can try to prioritize incoming requests that match a believed specialization, or possibly try to hold on to keys in its store based on specialization, but those don't affect routing decisions. One makes routing decisions based on something related to "specialization", something that we call "past performance". > In > this situation, the routing never changes. I don't see how routing would never change. > In fact, in > this situation, would the other nodes even change > their concept of what the sneakernet node's > specilization is or, for that mater, even notice a > difference at all between a sneakernet node and a > non-sneakernet node? > I don't know how the conversation got to the topic of nodes guessing other nodes' specialization. This started about whether a node could guess what other nodes believe its specialization is. > Can you take some time to explain why this is a > problem? Can you think of a sample situation where > this could be used to negatively influence the > network? This would be good not only for the current > situation but also to refer to in the future. > > Thanks, > Tyler > The reason I think that trying to model a node's specialization within a node is futile is because specialization is a function of the routing tables of many many nodes. Since freenet makes it purposefully difficult to model the global routing, trying to build functions on top of code that attempts to do this in realtime looks to me like the height of folly. 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
