Re: Using the DHT to find download sources

--- In [email protected], Raphael_Manfredi@... wrote:
>
> Quoting pwang708 <wang.peng@...> from ml.gnutella.dev-forum:
> :Usage of the DHT:
> :3) serving as distributed tracker for bittorrent enabled clients. A
> :DHT can also be used to search torrent files.
> 
> I vote against this for a Gnutella-oriented DHT.  If you want to use
> bittorrent, you know where to find it.
> 
> If you want to search for torrent files in Gnutella, fine.  A
torrent file
> is just another piece of information that can be shared.  But if you
want to
> add to the DHT design things that are bittorrent-specific, then my
answer
> is no!.  If you want to add that as private extensions for LimeWire, I
> don't care as long as gtk-gnutella and any other servent joining the
DHT can
> operate correctly without these private extensions.
> 
> :Requirements:


I guess we come back to the question we argued before: do we want to
improve users experience or we want to make Gnutella pure. I think
installing less softwares is good to users. 


> :6) A richer API. The DHT can be used for several things which may have
> :different requirements.
> 
> Let's keep the DHT simple and focused on Gnutella.  We're not trying
> to design a super flexible generic DHT here.  We're designing something
> that can store IP:port vectors in limited quantities for any given key.
> 
> Let's do this first. There are already many problems to solve to achieve
> this efficiently.
> 

Once implemented, it will not be easy to convince people to change.
:-( The effort of listing requirements etc is trying to foresee as
much as possible. So that, hopefully, we could have a similar view of
the near future, next version DHT... We don't have to implement
everything now. But we want to have a good design which is flexible to
accommodate future changes, right?

Best,
Peng