[mnet-devel] why ent? (was: Replacing EGTP with PB over SSL)

[icepick at icepick.info]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:10:59PM -0400, Zooko wrote:
> 
> > Why exactly to you think ent is either necessary or worthwhile?
> > 
> > Other than satisfying your intetellectual itch what problem does it 
> > solve?
> 
> The main reason for the existence of ent is to scratch my intellectual itch 
> and to have a fully decentralized network with no SPOFs.
> 
> No wait, the TWO main reasons for ent are to scratch my intellectual itch, 
> eliminate SPOFs, and have a scalable routing scheme.

Third reason:  The metatracker code is not under the LGPL and as not been
updated in almost 2 years.  There would be another metatracker running on
70mM right now if this was not the case.

icepick



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