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[Michael Rogers]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> Don't we _want_ the networks to be bridged?

Not at present - a few links between two mature networks (which is what
I mean by bridging, sorry if that's the wrong terminology) would break
things pretty badly I believe. The bridge nodes would be little better
than black holes.

> I agree that long term we will need to be able to identify that two
> networks are not strongly connected, and treat them as separate
> networks, only escaping to the second network if we can't find what we
> want on the first ... But that's a long way off.

Fair enough, I'm not trying to push for it, just brainstorming about
advantages and disadvantages of different darknet architectures.

Cheers,
Michael