On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:09:31AM -0400, S M wrote: > I think Freenet should be made flexible enough to be able to try different > models on the fly. If you think this model works, then you can set your node > to use this model.
Recipe for chaos. Self-organizing systems will only self-organize if they all have approximately the same rules. > > Given enough experimentation, working models should make Freenet behave > better - and are more likely to be used while bad models will not be used. > Freenet would be self improving then. > > Plus if a model isn't working it would be easy to change it's behaviour > since it's so flexible. > > SM > > > > On 9/28/05, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > > Interesting. IIRC for a network to be small world it does not have to > > have power-law degree; power-law degree can be either small world or > > scale free. We are hoping for small-world rather than scale-free as the > > latter is extremely vulnerable but the former is very robust. > > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:18:13AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > > > This paper has an interesting (but unproven) proposal for greedy > > > forwarding in networks with power law degree distributions: for each > > > neighbour of the current node, call its "greedy degree" the number of > > > its neighbours that are closer to the target than the current node, and > > > forward the message to the neighbour with the highest greedy degree. > > > > > > http://www.rose-hulman.edu/mathjournal/2004/vol5-n2/paper7/v5n2-7pd.pdf > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Michael > > -- > > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFDOp8YHzsuOmVUoi0RAo/oAJ9wxW1eYAybMqwjVeffyw3dbtWw5ACgroQ+ > > ZYt8ZsykX8bNyHv8/9di1jg= > > =44m8 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tech mailing list > > Tech at freenetproject.org > > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech -- 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/20050929/eda4ebb2/attachment.pgp>
