Re: Small World

Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:27:28PM -0600, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >
> > 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".

True opennet yes. However there are lots of not-so-good opennets (e.g.
#freenet-refs ) and there are algorithms to create small world networks.

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