status of various projects?
It seems like a lot of interesting projects haven't been active for a while - notably Free Haven and Eternity Usenet. Where is the most active work, these days, on distributed publishing systems? ************************************************************************** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President & Newtonville, MA 02460-0006 Director, Municipal Telecommunications Strategies Program 617-558-3698 fax: 617-630-8946 mfidelman@civicnet.org http://civic.net/ccn.html Information Infrastructure: Public Spaces for the 21st Century Let's Start With: Internet Wall-Plugs Everywhere Say It Often, Say It Loud: "I Want My Internet!" **************************************************************************
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 10:58, Miles Fidelman wrote:
It seems like a lot of interesting projects haven't been active for a while - notably Free Haven and Eternity Usenet. Where is the most active work, these days, on distributed publishing systems?
Try Mnet (http://mnet.sf.net/). It's the continuation of the Mojo Nation code base. We are close to a "stable" release (0.5.1), but there are a lot of known bugs that we are leaving in the system (because we are rewriting the code that the bugs are found in). Our main goal for the next release is to make it easier for new coders to understand what's going on under the hood. That and replacing the single point of failure metatracker system with a distributed hash table. The old mojo token based system is no longer in use, but we hope to replace it with an OpenDBS based system, or a stamp based system. myers
On Wed, Aug 14, at 10:58AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: | It seems like a lot of interesting projects haven't been active for a | while - notably Free Haven and Eternity Usenet. Where is the most active | work, these days, on distributed publishing systems? I forwarded this to Roger Dingledine who heads up the FreeHaven project. His answer is below.
From arma@seul.org Thu Aug 15 16:46:59 2002 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:46:59 -0400 From: Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu> To: gabe@seul.org Subject: free haven status
At this point, Free Haven has 3 major flaws, and I'm putting it on the back burner while I address them: * The reputation system is tricky and won't work. We need to replace the gossip/credibility system with a mechanism for verifiable transactions. See http://freehaven.net/doc/cfp02/cfp02.html for more details. * Retrieval is currently broadcast, which is insane. I'm letting other projects work on solutions here (eg Chord), and I'll pick my favorite when the time comes. * There is no anonymous communications infrastructure. This is the area we're focusing on currently. See http://mixminion.net/minion-design.pdf and http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/tarzan/ --Roger
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