On Thursday 31 August 2006 03:32, Colin wrote: > That's absolutely true- I love the Darknet model, but I think it'll > end up creating a lot of slow links between individual darknets. > If they only have one person in common, getting from link A to B will > be slow, and fragile. > > On the other hand, If most people in Darknet A only trust each other, > but also trust a few friends which have Opennet connections, each of > those friends is a link to any other Darknet with has the same > characteristics.
But then when the opennet is blocked (I'm going with 'when' rather than 'if'), any communication problems between those darknets will be exacerbated. We can't rely on opennet as a mechanism for linking different darknets - darknet routing needs to work on its own. > > Essentially, If you have group A, which is only Even numbers, Group B, > which is only Odd numbers, they aren't going to be linked, except on 0 > (Stretching the analogy a bit, but stick with me), if even 10% of the > even and odd numbers were opennet links, it would be a MUCH more > robust inter-connection. > The people who are Odd, or Even, but NOT darknets, benefit in that > they can talk to one another easily, without directly exposing > themselves to the opennet. > > -Colin > > > On Aug 29, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > This is not true. A global darknet is feasible, as I have explained: > > National barriers, and even language barriers are by no means > > absolute, > > and to the extent that they affect the network they can be dealt with. > > If Freenet provides something of value, we can make a large darknet. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
