Matthew Toseland wrote: > I believe that it is expedient, provided that we get a significant > movement from opennet to darknet. I am not yet sure how we will ensure > that; increased security may be enough, but everyone knows (wrongly but > instinctively) that opennet is more secure, so ...
I think you'll need some form of "incentive" to be on darknet. And security may not be enough, especially if people don't perceive the opennet to be less secure. I personally would prefer to *never* advertise my noderef anywhere, either internal or external to freenet. But most people just want their node to be fast, and rely on freenet's umpteen other securities and the hope that plausible deny-ability will keep them out of hot water. Unfortunately, the only incentives I can think of come in terms of crippling opennet in some way: Preferred routing to darknet nodes, bandwidth tokens that are handed out twice as fast to darknet nodes, etc., and I doubt that's the way to go, especially since it would almost certainly lead to iFreed/Ubernode style pseudo-darknet networks in the long run, to overcome said limitations. --Ken.
