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[dcdev] Thoughts about Fredrik's draft
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Anakim Border
Datum:
2004-01-16 6:29
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Direct Connect developers

http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/doldaconnect/protocol.html

write. However, it would be good if people would start looking through
the sections that I've written about the semantics of the protocol and
give me some early feedback.

First of all, do we really need *persistent* GUIDs? They won't help tracking malicious users, since anyone can always force his client to generate a new GUID when he likes. They can surely be used to differentiate two users sharing the same nick on different time frames, but:
1) even if GUIDs are not persistent, i.e. they are generated each time a client is started, the probability of a 128-bit UID clash is remote;
2) in the case that happens, rollback and TTH are more than enought to protect against file corruptions.
All in all I don't see any real need to make GUIDs persistent, while I don't like the idea of making all too easy the life of people willing to track my online presence.

In the "Semantic->Roles" section I find the following open question:

However, should this protocol define a hub-to-hub protocol as well, or should that be left to the hub implementor?

I think the current hub model is showing many limits; simply put it doesn't scale at all. Things could get better by making two or more servers work togheter (thus the need of a server-to-server protocol spec). I don't know if your draft is the right place, but I'd definitely like to explore the topic.

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