[mnet-devel] Re: [freenet-dev] (no subject)

[Zooko]

 Todd Walton <todd at hardboot.org> wrote:
>
> Freenet adding erasure coding?  From the Mnet FAQ I understood "erasure 
> coding" to be the equivalent of FEC, which Freenet already uses.

Yep -- "erasure coding" == "FEC".

> [...]

Thanks for the explanation about data "floating" in Freenet.  That is a very 
important part of the Freenet routing concept.

I'll think about it some more.

There is a hypothesis which may be true or false of Freenet (and of other 
similar networks).  I'll call it the "emergent convergence" hypothesis.

Definition: "Network-wide routing is 'convergent' if two nodes which have no 
special relation to one another route the same key to the same node."

Emergent Convergence Hypothesis: "If each individual node makes routing 
decisions based solely on local information, then in the network as a whole, 
routing will be convergent."

The DHTs all come with concise proofs of emergent convergence, although at 
least originally these proofs were all in a "stable network" scenario which 
isn't necessarily applicable to real life.

It's too bad there is no such proof for Freenet.

Regards,

Zooko

http://zooko.com/



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