On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:04:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > It is true that trusted connections allows for a form of negative > reputation, which is normally not possible on the Internet, however > BitTorrent seems to get along just fine using tit-for-tat without the > need for negative reputation - all reputation is positive and must be > earned. Why can't we do the same?
Because it's not a comparable situation: As you say they start off with the benefit of the doubt. When that expires, they just move on to another node. Whereas BitTorrent is centralized: There is only one tracker for a given file. This is assuming the node cannot create a new identity and try again, which of course it will be able to do, because we can't enforce one node per IP address due to big NATs. -- 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/20060822/8f465939/attachment.pgp>
