Re: Small World

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:29:11PM -0600, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote:
>   
>>> Yes it will be small world. But I don't see how you could borrow it as
>>> it relies on path-folding on successful requests.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Then I need to understand this path-folding is and how it works.  Any
>> pointers to info on this would be appreciated.
>>     
>
> Path folding = When a request completes successfully, there is a chance
> of connecting to the source of the data. (This is reset occasionally to
> preserve anonymity and manage load).
>   
Haven't looked for the papers, but it sounds like that means opennet
implemented in fred will be integrated with other node functions and
thus things outside fred can't use path-folding without that same
integration.  Unless I've not thought of something, it sounds to me like
"opennet" can't be implemented anywhere but fred as everything else,
including refbot.py, will generate a physical connection topology that
is very likely to be incompatible with "small world".
> See the older pre-0.7 freenet papers (probably still on the papers
> section on the website)
> http://wiki.freenetproject.org/OpennetDesign
>