[ANet-devel] FASD: Ahem... Hello!?!

[Benoit N. <be...@ma...>]

OK. We start on Freenet's web site (http://freenetproject.org/):
> Amr Kronfol has written a thesis on FASD, a Fault-tolerant, Adaptive, 
> Scalable, Distributed Search Engine. It is essentially a generalization 
> of Freenet's heuristic searching algorithm, but rather than looking for 
> specific keys, it allows you to do a Google-style keyword search 
> through documents. FASD can form a layer along-side Freenet which will 
> bring us much closer to matching the functionality of the WWW. Amr has 
> performed extensive simulations to demonstrate that FASD shares 
> Freenet's scalability and fault tolerance.

So, you go to FASD's web site:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~akronfol/fasd/

After boring yourself with the thesis (page 20 has the worse pseudo-code 
that I've
seen in years...), you should say to yourself "D'uh!":

1. Not being able to search metadata in Freenet is and will remain 
Freenet's limitation.
2. FASD is just an optimized Gnutella, which had been in discussion for 
almost 2 years
    (on Gnutella development mailing lists), but now with fancy words.
3. So why can't we use the *same* network under the *same* framework?
    What's the point of having *another* "layer along-side Freenet"?

This paper cries for a common framework!

I have a stange feeling that they'll figure out exactly what I've been 
saying for
over a year, but in about 2 or 3 years. But then, they'll have a fancy 
thesis...

(Yes, I'm using Mail.app for Mac OS X... SourceForge's servers don't 
like my
sendmail setup and think it is spam, so I can't use mutt...)

- Benad