[Tech] Distributed file system using routing inspired by Freenet

[Colin Davis]

> If we make it configurable, everyone will increase it, and because everyone 
> has increased it, everyone will increase it some more. This is what happened 
> on 0.3 with HTL, which is one reason we have configurable HTL any more.
>
>   
Forgive me for being naive,  but that seems more like a flaw in the 
network design than tweaking the FEC setting.
Consider this- After freenet is released, JohnQHacker puts up a website, 
offering TweakedFreenet.jar, which is recompiled to push more FEC 
blocks, to more servers, and generally be very greedy. Wouldn't you get 
into the same Arms race, with people needing to also download the 
TweakedFreenet to keep up?

It seems like some sort of "in network" solution, such as a variation of 
a tit-for-tat measurement.. Inserting file A with 100X redundancy is 
approximately the same as inserting file B which is 100X the size.. If 
we enforce fairness on accepting traffic unless they've "earned" it, a 
user can then decide how to "spend" that bandwidth.. One mostly lossy 
10M file, or 10X redundancy on your 1M file.
-Colin

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