Ian: (noting who I'm responding to as per Oskar's request)
> I would also be interested to hear your comments on how my "Shadow
> Node" proposal (as posted here yesterday) compares to your proposal.
At first I was very happy because it's a proposal which addresses the
problem and has support. So I thought great! Let's do it.
However, I have some problems with it. The main problem is that you can't
randomly select gateways as you suggest. Well, you can randomly select one
the first time, but then all of the references to your node are based on
this node. So you can't switch gateways. And if the gateway gets shut
down the all of the references to your node are broken.
This is obviously unacceptable. Perhaps it can be resolved by the use of
ARKs. I'll let the developers which are more pessimistic about what breaks
the network decide if this can be implemented without breaking the
network.
If it can be done without breaking the network then I'm all for it.
I do have an problem with it in that you're broadcasting that a node is a
gateway. However, if you could make the gateways be selected by the
shadowed nodes and any node could be a gateway, then that would be okay.
So I have some issues but if they can be worked out then I think it sounds
great.
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