Grapevine - scalability
Lucas Gonze
lucas@gonze.com
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:29:14 -0500
> I'm not saying it cannot work, but personally I will keep trying to get
> the correct emergent properties out of networks consisting of nodes
> behaving under a simple set of rules to the grave sooner than give in to
> the nightmare of trying to keep this sort of network consistant in the
> wild.
I don't believe that CAN/Chord will ever make sense for the kind of transient
relationships you get in public nets like gnutella, but I think that CAN/Chord
make sense when the social environment is right. In a business environment
social pressures to do the right thing should be enough to get churn down to a
rate that's slow enough for the reconstruction logic to work.
- Lucas