On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:50:12PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > I don't understand what you are trying to say here? With BitTorrent > you wouldn't get very far if you repeatedly had to start downloading > the file over and over again because you were building up a negative > reputation. tit-for-tat always starts by giving the other person the > benefit of the doubt, so you start with a small amount of positive > "karma".
It will work, as long as the value of the initial trust is less than the cost of getting a new peer. Can we ensure that this is the case? The initial trust must be at least one successful request per node (for an average number of nodes for a newbie), because each node will require at least one successful request to move forwards in tit-for-tat. The cost of getting a new peer is fairly low: Most successful requests will return a new peer, and announcements can return a large group of them. Perhaps we can limit this, but any such sanctions will make bootstrapping harder and consequently turn away large numbers of users, and anyway we will still need announcements. > > Ian. -- 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/20060822/1555b22e/attachment.pgp>
