On 28 Jun 2006, at 02:13, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: > On 6/28/06, Ian Clarke <ian at revver.com> wrote: >> On 27 Jun 2006, at 23:52, Thomas Bruderer wrote: >> 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.
You are assuming that the darknet and the opennet would be separate networks. That would not be the case. There may indeed be islands of darknet, but they would be connected together by an opennet. Users that only want to connect to people they trust can do so, but users who don't really care about exposing the fact that they are Freenet users can connect promiscuously *and* connect to darknet peers. Ian.
