But you can't make a a division between "small-world networks"
and DHTs, because all DHTs are, as has been noted, small-world networks,
just with varying degrees of randomness.
Oskar: I don't think you realize that your use of the word "small world" is quite
different from everyone else's and the graph theoretic definition. If you
think CAN defines a small world in any sense, we will not be able to
communicate.
I guess the success of the "small worlds" meme owes a lot to having a catchy
name, a loose allusion to human behavior, and a model simple enough that
anyone, including theoretician wannabes and even crackpot physicists, to get
into the p2p game. When performance is not an issue or when one cannot tell
X from X^2, every approach is as good as every other.
Bob.
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