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

[hemppah]

Quoting Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>:

> 
> 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.


Ok. 

Not directly related to this: I think CFS' downloads won't work in 'real-life'
very well, since the mini blocks are shared among participants. As seen in Mojo
Nation, half-life of the system is very small ;).


-Hermanni


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