On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:40:43AM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > A third issue, what do we do with nodes that currently are not connected? > If they are old I think we need to ignore them, if they are within the latest > set of good releases maybe we should extend some trust?
Well, as far as trust goes, it's not unreasonable to allow them to contribute, as long as they have been online relatively recently. > > Another issue. Here we have assumed that a connection is good enough to > trust a node. Is it? It would probably be much better to extend trust to > nodes that return data normally in a statistical sense. This implies we need > to track the percentage of requests that return data (and the standard > deviation) > and decide if a given node is really trustable. Probably this needs to be > done > with some sort of running average so we know an node is trustable now. We need to monitor performance certainly, and identify nodes which are not pulling their weight. > > Ed Tomlinson -- 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/20060130/b079f898/attachment.pgp>
