-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 February 2003 08:49 pm, Matthew Toseland wrote: > 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.
Actually, except for the boards, that sounds like FMB. And they're working on boards, too. > * An fproxy filter to recognize these keys and turn them into a pretty > HTML interface. Frost should have a link to them. I think that should be a separate app. > 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? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Pioxx533NjVSos4RAjvWAJwIzZLOH4QXpalw069/yAl3N0qqsACgmES+ /CCx+sn4dUzMwXiKPwPBSiI= =Pedy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
