changeset 153:b2dd8107931b draft

more a2.o updates
author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
date Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:34:39 +0000
parents f8414477a07e
children f0f1d38e254c
files doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod
diffstat 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod	Tue Sep 14 02:07:46 2010 +0000
+++ b/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod	Tue Sep 14 02:34:39 2010 +0000
@@ -25,22 +25,22 @@
 anonymity value, rather than, say, the quality of the available social
 networks.  If the latter is more important to you than the former, you're
 almost certainly wasting your time here.  If you'd like to understand
-more about the mechanics of anonymity, there's a whole separate page here
-(L<http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>) devoted to that topic.
+more about the mechanics of anonymity, L<there's a whole separate page
+here devoted to that topic|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>.
 
 =begin html
 
 <table>
  <tr><th colspan='5'>Overview</th></tr>
  <tr><td>&nbsp</td><th>AnoNet1</th><th>AnoNet2</th><th>dn42</th><th>VAnet</th></tr>
- <tr><th>Claimed Purpose</th><td>anonymity to prevent censorship</td><td>anonymity to preserve censorship</td><td>have fun with BGP</td><td>freedom and network efficiency</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>Claimed Purpose</th><td>anonymity to prevent censorship</td><td>anonymity to prevent censorship</td><td>have fun with BGP</td><td>freedom and network efficiency</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Claimed Government</th><td>nearly none</td><td>none</td><td>nearly none</td><td>backbone only</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Actual Government</th><td>oligarchy</td><td>none</td><td>nearly none</td><td>backbone only</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Actual Government betrays Claimed Purpose</th><td>yes</td><td>no</td><td>no</td><td>no</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Centralized Critical Infrastructure</th><td>wiki (includes resource database), client port, IRC</td><td>none</td><td>wiki, IRC</td><td>all</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Decentralized Critical Infrastructure</th><td>routing</td><td>all</td><td>routing, resource database</td><td>none</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Current Size</th><td>20-30</td><td>~10</td><td>40-50</td><td>&lt;5</td></tr>
- <tr><th>Average Monthly Growth</th><td>~0%</td><td>~20%</td><td>~5%</td><td>~20%</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>Average Monthly Growth</th><td>~0%</td><td>~20%</td><td>~5%</td><td>~10%</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Activity Level</th><td>medium</td><td>medium</td><td>medium</td><td>low</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Interdarknet Connectivity</th><td>censored access to AnoNet2 (must use AnoNet2 DNS), censored access to dn42 (must use AnoNet2 DNS)</td><td>full routing to part of AnoNet1, full routing to part of dn42, full routing to VAnet</td><td>censored access to AnoNet (1&amp;2, must use SRN's DNS), censored access to VAnet (must use SRN's DNS)</td><td>full routing to part of AnoNet1, full routing to AnoNet2, full routing to part of dn42</td></tr>
  <tr><th>DNS Coverage</th><td>AnoNet1</td><td>AnoNet (1&amp;2), dn42, VAnet, IcannNet</td><td>dn42, IcannNet</td><td>AnoNet (1&amp;2), dn42, VAnet, IcannNet</td></tr>
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
  <tr><th>Documentation</th><td>centralized (crzydmnd's wiki)</td><td>decentralized (part of git-based resdb)</td><td>centralized (helios's wiki)</td><td>centralized (vanet.org)</td></tr>
  <tr><th>Chatroom</th><td>centralized (single IRCnet)</td><td>decentralized (ad-hoc relaying between IRC and Jabber chatrooms)</td><td>semicentralized (single IRCnet, with a Jabber chatroom relay)</td><td>decentralized (shared with AnoNet2)</td></tr>
  <tr><th>DNS</th><td>centralized (from wiki), several official "rootservers"</td><td>decentralized (from resdb), each user fields his own, public nameservers available for the lazy</td><td>decentralized (from registry), multiple competing deployments</td><td>centralized (from svn), centralized official deployment</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>BitTorrent Trackers/Indexers</th><td>none?</td><td>1 centralized and 1 decentralized (git-based)</td><td>1 centralized</td><td>1 centralized</td></tr>
 </table>
 
 =end html
--- a/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod	Tue Sep 14 02:07:46 2010 +0000
+++ b/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod	Tue Sep 14 02:34:39 2010 +0000
@@ -21,15 +21,15 @@
 
 =item webchat
 
-L<http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet>
+L<KwaakNet|http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet> (doesn't hide your identity)
 
 =item telnet chat
 
-L<telnet://ufo-net.nl:2323/>
+L<SRN|telnet://ufo-net.nl:2323/> (hides your identity)
 
 =item IRC chat
 
-L<irc://irc.kwaaknet.org:6667/anonet>
+L<KwaakNet|irc://irc.kwaaknet.org:6667/anonet> (doesn't hide your identity)
 
 =back
 
@@ -42,21 +42,24 @@
 
 =item IRC
 
-L<irc://1.3.3.7:6667/anonet>
+L<KwaakNet|irc://1.3.3.7:6667/anonet> (doesn't automatically hide your identity)
 
 =item IRC
 
-L<irc://irc.somerandomnick.ano:6667/RendezVous>
-(L<irc://1.0.27.103:6667/RendezVous>, if you don't have
-DNS for some reason)
+L<SRN|irc://irc.somerandomnick.ano:6667/RendezVous>
+(L<SRN|irc://1.0.27.103:6667/RendezVous>, if you don't have DNS for some
+reason) (automatically hides your identity)
 
 =item IRC
 
-L<irc://irc.pragmo.ano:6667/atomic> (L<irc://1.0.16.111:6667/atomic>, for the same reason as before and if you want you can use SSL on port 6697)
+L<pragmo|irc://irc.pragmo.ano:6667/atomic>
+(L<pragmo|irc://1.0.16.111:6667/atomic>, for the same reason as before
+and if you want you can use SSL on port 6697) (doesn't automatically
+hide your identity)
 
 =item telnet
 
-L<telnet://irc.somerandomnick.ano:2323/>
+L<SRN|telnet://irc.somerandomnick.ano:2323/>
 
 =item Jabber
 
@@ -182,6 +185,12 @@
 
 Decentralized Web mirroring service (at least L<http://a.mirror.somerandomnick.ano>) (technical difficulties)
 
+=item *
+
+BitTorrent Tracker/Indexer (three separate ones, each with some cool
+features of its own - ask for details on IRC) (no need to worry about
+"Three Strikes" ISP policies)
+
 =back
 
 Here's a list of things that somebody claims to be working on:
@@ -233,11 +242,13 @@
 =item IRC Servers
 
 IRC on AnoNet2 isn't one big network under centralized control.
-Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server, and
-links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers, using
-a collection of relay bots.  (Right now, UFO and pragmo field relays,
-and the scalability problems are becoming visible.  How relay bots may
-want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion.)
+Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server,
+and links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers,
+using a collection of relay bots.  (Right now, UFO and pragmo field
+relays, and the scalability problems are becoming visible.  How relay
+bots may want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion.
+Feel free to join in the discussion, or just do your own thing and let
+everyone else be damned.)
 
 =item Outbound HTTP Proxies