Re: [Blocks-development] fake local networks? Blocks as a backend for other services?

[Blat F. <pet...@ho...>]

>From: "Spencer Jr., Michael" <sp...@ac...>
>To: "'Blat Froop'" <pet...@ho...>,        
>blo...@li...
>Subject: [Blocks-development] fake local networks?  Blocks as a backend for 
>other services?
>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:18:25 -0500
>
>It's looking like these Blocks servers won't be lightweight
>connect-search-disconnect clients.  A significant number (but not a
>majority) will probably be run by people with bandwidth and clue.
>
>With that in mind, here's a silly idea that I haven't given much thought 
>to:
>
>for anonymity, eventually, maybe when we make Blocks client/server, if we
>choose to go that route...why not make it an option to run multiple Blocks
>server locally, and manage them all in one GUI!  You could even add fake
>latency and bandwidth between the local servers, so they appear to be on
>other machines.

Hmmm... that would be a nice feature but probably the effort would
outweight the benefits.

>
>
>While I'm at it...
>if all of this web-of-trust stuff gets implemented well sometime down the
>road...I suppose you could have a closed network of clients merely used as 
>a
>distributed 'disk dump' for a different service:  you connect to an FTP
>server and download files, and the files are coming from a closed Blocks
>network for example.
>
>Filesystem driver for Blocks?  (mount -t blocksfs -o
>cache=4,rate=32768,listen=9912 /home/ftp 209.180.104.202:91)
>
>Perhaps have an /unsigned directory for content that hasn't been signed, 
>and
>have people 'own' certain directories with crypto keys...and files are
>assigned to directories by signing the files.  I don't know...could be 
>cool.
>And these directory and key assignments could be made per-server in
>/etc/blocksfs.conf or something like that.  :)

A filesystem based on DAV ( http://www.webdav.org ) is a possibility,
everything else would be heavily non-portable. That would let
WIN32 people use native 'Web Folders', and, if there isnt a way to
mount it on Linux Im sure there will be eventually.

ttfn

PG.

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