[freenet-dev] [freenet-cvs] r16974 - trunk/freenet/src/freenet/node

[Matthew Toseland]

On Friday 11 January 2008 20:15, David Sowder wrote:
> I'm using N2NMs as a generic message type and I thought you were cool 
> with that after our earlier discussion about differential node 
> references.  Because of this, I don't assume all functionality of N2NMs, 
> as only previously used by N2NTMs, to be darknet-only.  As for own 
> routing on top of Freenet, that's one of the things I've been wanting to 
> play with once I got N2NMs into FCP.  My current assumption, and my 
> implementation reflects it, is that queuing a N2NM for an opennet peer 
> doesn't make sense because we have no idea if we'll ever re-connect to 
> that currently disconnected peer.
> > So the simplest solution is to always queue, to only allow N2NMs to/from 
> > darknet peers, and to have a separate message type for the low-level 
> > mechanism of differential noderefs (which can of course share code if 
there 
> > is any major code to be done). Is the simplest solution the best in this 
> > case? It seems like premature complexity to me - but maybe it's useful 
> > complexity?
> >   
> I don't always queue because queuing is only needed for disconnected 
> peers, though I supposed we could sendAsync it and then the connection 
> dies before it's delivered.
> Currently, I like the idea of N2NMs not being darknet-only.  Sure we 
> could say they are now, change differential node refs to a dedicated 
> message and give them opennet access when someone asks for it, but 
> implementing that might be harder then if it's got the darknet-only 
> assumption even more coded in than it was.
> 
> To me, this commit is quite straight-forward, but then again, maybe I 
> don't see the complexity because I coded it.

The question is does it make the primary use of N2NMs - use by clients over 
FCP - more difficult?
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