On 6/28/06, Ian Clarke <ian at revver.com> wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2006, at 23:52, Thomas Bruderer wrote:
> >> I agree that we need to simulate it to ensure that destination
> >> sampling (aka LRU) can co-exist with location swapping, but that
> >> should be a relatively straight-forward simulation, Oskar may even do
> >> it for us
> >
> > One intersting note:
> >
> > Toad states: if there is an opennet, nobody would use the darknet...
> >
> > Well if there is no need for a darknet, why we talk about it?
> > Either there is a
> > need, and it was good you built a darknet. Or nobody wants a
> > darknet and there
> > never will be success with darknet.
>
> Well, I have never heard or read that Toad said that, but the
> response to anyone that did say that is that the darknet is there so
> that it is available to those that need it.  If people don't need the
> security offered by participating in a darknet, then they should use
> the opennet.
>
> > If really nobody wants to use darknet, whats the point in keeping
> > it with all
> > forces?
>
> Even if most people don't need a darknet, it doesn't mean that nobody
> needs a darknet.  I would expect that the people that most need
> Freenet probably need a darknet, but the majority of Freenet users
> probably don't fall into that category.

I would rather have to bother a slight bit more to set up a darknet
node than not if it mean those who really need it will be able to have
it instead of just a bunch of small darknet and a huge opennet they
can't use.

>
> > In fact I think toad is right, but my conclusion is completly
> > different. Three
> > months of 0.7 leads me to the conclusion that darknet is not a
> > killer feature.
>
> Perhaps not, for you.
>
> Ian.
>
>
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