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[GNUnet-developers] Re: Trust vs. Reputation
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Ludovic Courtès |
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[GNUnet-developers] Re: Trust vs. Reputation |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:32:43 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:27:14PM -0500, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> Why not? Suppose you talked to 1 Million nodes. Each trust level is 4 bytes
> (plus say 20 to identify the node, makes 24). That's 24 MB of data to keep.
> So you can afford maintaining a trust history for every node you talked to.
Right.
> No, that cooperation falls to zero is a different thing, their model is not
> excess based, in an excess based model you would never see that peers decide
> not to cooperate at all (since at that point all resources would become
> excess resources).
Yes, good point.
> Turnover may increase, but still peers will try to establish and maintain
> stable connections (that is, not change neighbours all the time).
[...]
> Nope, that's again one of the key differences in the P2P model: GNUnet uses
> anonymous routing (traffic is indirected) and not a Direct-Connect/gnutella
> style overlay where in the end a direct end-to-end connection is necessary.
> This is one of the reasons why there is more locality in GNUnet and why the
> economy will work better for GNUnet then for some 'arbitrary' P2P design.
I guess I should look at the GAP paper for a better understanding of
routing in GNUnet. :-)
Thanks,
Ludovic.