How do you see Frost going in the medium term? I think we need some
convergence of Frost into Fproxy. For various reasons (mostly the fact
that KSK-based boards are horribly floodable), I don't think we
necessarily want a Frost-web-interface in the main freenet package
yet... and we certainly would have second thoughts about packaging a
GUI Swing client with Freenet. However, I think the following might be
worth considering:
* Signed, user-verifiable identities within Frost (but still based on
  boards, of course).
* Automatic insertion of summary files with all files inserted by a
  given identity to a given board, or adopted by that identity (a
  checkbox when downloading?). Summary file contains metadata etc for
  each file, just as a message post would, but is cumulative. Is
  inserted at SSK@<pubkey of identity>/<board name>/<serial number> or
  some such standard place, with a well-known format.
* An fproxy filter to recognize these keys and turn them into a pretty
  HTML interface. Frost should have a link to them.

Thus inserts lead to BOTH Frost AND Fproxy being able to get to new
content. I'm not sure whether we want to directly support KSK-based 
boards on Fproxy, but one possibility would be to add extra sections to
the summary files listing other identities that insert useful stuff,
creating a web of trust... what do you think about all this?
-- 
Matthew Toseland
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