On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:37:06PM -0400, jrandom at i2p.net wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Distributed data stores are useful for two things - flash floods, and > high latency comm (high latency comm means the time between > transmission and reception is high, not that the time between attempted > reception and actual reception is high). > > Yes, you can use a distributed data store for low latency comm, but a > packet (or, yes, circuit) switched network fits that need much better. > Email over UUCP made sense when we didn't have internet connections, > but there's a reason why we very rarely use UUCP today.
I'm not sure what you are saying here. What is it that distributed data stores are not good for exactly? Web-like apps are supposed to be fairly low latency... Distributed data store is good for flash floods (in a much wider sense than bittorrent), it's good for optimising load and avoiding intersection attacks on the server, above all it's good for the case where the data source may no longer be on the network; it's good for all sorts of things. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20051007/20685abb/attachment.pgp>
