[mnet-devel] plans for _newnet

[Zooko]

I've gotten more definite ideas about a new network idea based on Kademlia.

The version I want to implement first (as soon as I have a break from moving 
etc.) is pretty much vanilla Kademlia, with a couple of Mnet-derived tweaks:

1.  Use the "success rate" measure that we currently use in downloading to 
determine which of alternative peers you link to.

2.  Keep newcomers "at arms length" until they have been up for at least K 
hours.  Until then, don't publish blocks *solely* to them -- any blocks you 
publish to a newcomer you also publish to an old-timer for backup.

I toyed with the idea of using Twisted's Perspective Broker instead of EGTP for 
the first implementation, but I don't want to give up the authentication that 
EGTP provides just yet.  Also, we already know how to use EGTP, so by continuing 
to use it we can do the first implementation more quickly.

--Z



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