Re: Using the DHT to find download sources

Quoting pwang708 <[email protected]> from ml.gnutella.dev-forum:
:Michael and I discussed grouping peers having common interests. We can
:also somehow tag the groups, then publish the tags and a subset of
:current ultrapeers in the group into the DHT. 

Such clustering is a very bad idea.

In the end, it makes it very difficult for people outside the cluster
to find something from within the cluster, and it can also create an
island in the network if the clustering is too strong.

Also, clustering along dimensions such as interets or language in the
hope that QRP routing will be much more useful for your searches, is a
double-edged sword: it can make it impossible for you to find something
your cluster is not sharing, because the nodes that do share the things
you now want are just a few hops away past your clustered horizon.

Raphael