> And do you suppose that a Freenet where every node needed a reference to every
> other node would be scalable?
Um...that's not in any way related to anything I'm talking about.
> > Second, path compression still occurs
> > between clusters.
>
> You mean between gateway nodes - you may-as-well not have any of the other
> nodes in the cluster as far as the network is concerned. If everyone joined a
> cluster (which is the situation I assume you would advocate) you would end-up
> with a very unhealthy Freenet indeed.
I do mean between gateway nodes. Of course I don't advogate everyone
joining a cluster. As I've said over and over again, clusters are for
people that need them and most people won't use clusters. Most people will
run public nodes. Everyone being in a cluster is silly. You need to have a
public network and you need to have gateway nodes if you want things to be
reasonably fast.
In a suitably repressive environment, everyone would *have* to run
clusters in order to run nodes at all. That doesn't mean it's a good
thing for everyone to be doing, but it's better than not participating at
all.
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