---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 06:16:05 -0700 From: Zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "A. Melon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Experiences Deploying a Large Scale Emergent Network [This is in reply to a message that was sent to me and to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2002-03-22. I do not see it on mail-archive.com [1], so if you are interested you might want to view the archive at sf.net/projects/mnet [2].] I'd like to thank A. Melon for criticism of my paper "Experiences Deploying a Large-Scale Emergent Network". I've updated the paper in preparation for its inclusion in a printed dead-tree proceedings and attempted to address some of A. Melon's criticisms. In particular, I've tried to be more clear about the magnitude of Mojo Nation's failures by adding the typical and maximum number of simultaneously connected nodes. I've also added some observations about "two big mistakes that would be easy to correct", something I understood only after chatting with the researchers at the Peer-to-Peer Workshop. I've also attempted to address A. Melon's other criticism: that it isn't clear which specific issues are most to blame for the overall poor behavior. I've added statements about my belief that the high node churn rate was largely due to the poor data availability and that conversely the poor data availability was partially due to the high node churn rate. I've also added a statement that there are a lot of important aspects of the system as a whole which are omitted from the scope of the paper. (Including agnostically-blindable digital tokens and many other things.) I'd like to thank A. Melon and the participants of the Peer-to-Peer workshop for feedback. Most of all I'd like to thank the architects of Mojo Nation: Jim McCoy and Doug Barnes. Mojo Nation was a brave experiment, and I hope that we will all benefit from the resulting knowledge. Here is the URL for the current version of the paper: http://zooko.com/IPTPS02.ps or http://zooko.com/IPTPS02.pdf Regards, Zooko [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@wasabisystems.com/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=579361&forum_id=7702 --- zooko.com Security and Distributed Systems Engineering --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]