On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:18:23PM -0600, Brandon wrote:
>
> BC:
> > Would a shielded node's operator manually select a shield node? How would he
> > find one? Would shield nodes allow anyone to "hide behind" them, or only
> > selected other nodes, or what? Would a node 'advertise' that it was willing
> > to act as a shield node?
>
> I think that any node should be default act as a shield node if so
> requested. There should be a message or a field in a message which
> indicates that the sending nodes wants to be shielded. This is a sensible
> place to put things since where the shielding indicator would goes is with
> the reference to the node in the shield node's datastore.
If this is optional, nodes which are shield nodes will be preferentially
attacked. Just limit the shield-forwarding to say 25% of the total bandwidth
quota?
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