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Originally posted by TankGirl
Why?
Isn't it enough to know only those peers that you are connected to and deal with directly? More like memorizing and recognizing your hotlist, ignore list and perhaps a few thousand of your recent transfer and chat contacts. You could still communicate and co-operate with unknown peers using agreed-on protocols.
- tg 
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<kento blushes> okay maybe i am still reading you wrong TG....but it sounds like all you are really wanting or asking for is for a "hotlist" like in Napster? that shouldn't be impossible to implement....
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Decentralization means that there will be no outside authority – VeriSign, MicroSoft or Napster - to keep books of who is who in the network. No trusted third party will be there to guarantee that peers really are really whom they claim to be. We have to know it and remember it ourselves. To do that we need unique, permanent and verifiable peer identities. Nicks (even with random additions such as we have seen in WinMX's WPN) are unsuitable for this as peers can pick and change their nicks freely, and there will be no outside authority to prevent nick collisions.
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What would you use as a unique, permanent and verifiable peer identifier in these circumstances?
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so...ranger inc....can't do it? microsoft can't do it? riaa can't do it? why then do you want to do it TG? This disturbs me....why does it matter?
-kento