[mnet-devel] Solving some communications problems.

[Zooko]

> What I really mean is, it
> sounds like some people fear the project will sink. Why?

1.   HEAD doesn't work.

2.   Tschechow has, at least temporarily, quit.
2.a. Therefore, the current-Mnet-network sucks because most of the good 
     servers were Tschechow's.

I don't think that either of these are fatal, though certainly if Tschechow 
doesn't come back then Mnet will be the worse for his absence.

By the way, this graphically illustrates one of the problems with the v0.6-era 
design -- that there was a de facto Single Point of Failure even if there was 
not an offical Single Point of Failure.  Actually I'm not sure how this can be 
avoided other than (a) incentives for more people to run servers (I've thought 
a lot about this recently) and (b) active feedback letting everyone know the 
true state of the network (of which v0.6 has a good first version, due to 
Tschechow's Carnivore Reporter.)

--Z



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