Re: [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

Hi Hermanni,

address@hidden wrote:
> We have to be careful with distrubution of shares, espcially if used for better
> data availability. You should read IPTPS '02 publication how distribution of
> shares failed in Mojo Nation:
>
> http://zooko.com/IPTPS02.pdf
>
> They estimated the 'half-life' phenomenon wrong among participating peers.
> However, they give a work around proposal (used in Kademlia) on this issue in 
> text.

I'm not planning to do a share-based system. I was just thinking that 
the *possibility* of such a system might be another reason for tree 
hashing. But downloading from multiple sources is the main one, of course.

- Benja