Re: Standards (was Back to Merkle Hash Trees...)

Justin Cormack wrote:

>
>The other major problem is when conencting to a torrent, if most peers use
>the URL encoding it will be very hard to find a peer (ie the seed) that has
>the info data. If there are a lot of clients all at once there will be a large
>delay before anyone can do useful work.
>  
>
This is no different from the problem presented when a popular torrent 
is created - one seed has all the torrent data, many peers have none. BT 
solves that one admirably, why not this one?

-Nick Johnson


 
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