scyth:
generating port numbers from ip addresses would make the network easier to organise, in my opinion - while it's true that randomly generated ports can be carried within search results, that doesn't solve the problem of finding places to connect to in the network in the first place. freenet appears to do this using a large list of nodes' addresses and listening ports - seednodes.ref - that you download along with the client, and can update from sites within freenet (such as the freedom engine). this is a far from ideal approach to the problem.
i agree about encryption, however - it's the best way to stop traffic being monitored, although i can't help thinking that not many isps would be bothered with the time and money it'd take to try to monitor and police everything their users do, not to mention the legal implications of that course of action.
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