[Tech] PageRank for premix routing?

[Matthew Toseland]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:26:35AM +0000, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > PageRank is patented, and picking a fight with Google is a bad idea
> > especially as they gave us 4 summer coders and $2000 last year.
> 
> Sorry, did I say PageRank? I meant eigenvector centrality. :-) See the 
> related work section of this paper by Jon Kleinberg (who else?) - it 
> turns out people have been calculating eigenvector centrality in social 
> networks since at least the 70s and possibly the 50s:
> 
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/auth.pdf
> 
> I agree that it would be stupid (and ungrateful) to antagonise Google, 
> but there seems to be plenty of prior art for using eigenvector 
> centrality as a trust metric. I'll try to chase up the Katz, Hubbell and 
> Pinski-Narin refs tonight.

Cool!
> 
> > However I do worry that once we have opennet nobody will use darknet. :|
> 
> Agreed.

Which may be a reason for only implementing premix routing on darknet.
If people want Tor they can use Tor.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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