I think it is clear to most people that the lack of an opennet option is proving to be a major inhibitor to adoption. What we have learned in practice is that if you only give a darknet option to people who are clearly willing to connect to strangers, then they will create their own opennet using kludges like ifreed.net and ubernode.org. Most Freenet users appear happy to connect to strangers, this isn't surprising, nor is it undesirable. The goal of 0.7 was *never* to force everyone to form connections manually, the goal was to provide that option to those that want it.
I believe that Freenet 0.5-style "destination sampling" should work fine in conjunction with darknet connection swapping, as both algorithms have proven themselves robust in practice. We should simulate this to be sure. I really think we need to up the priority of opennet, as I think currently we are squandering interest in Freenet by forcing people to manually create connections to users. Ian.
