On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:47:23AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > 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.
And WHEN, not if, the IPRED2 passes, or some other stupid law (DADVSI in France has almost passed), and the authorities get around to Freenet, the opennet will disappear, and the darknet fragments will still not be connected to one another. As you said yourself, there are limits to giving the user what they want: We don't give them what they want if it would break the network. Perhaps opennet is necessary. But not unless we are sure that it won't break darknet. Right now that is not the case: We are sure it WILL break darknet! > > Ian. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060628/96a85054/attachment.pgp>
