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commit 545c09992cf08c63d39091f9a5955b5bf658ea7f
Author: Nick 
Date:   Tue Sep 14 19:19:33 2010 +0000

    another try at a2.o/darknet_comparison

diff --git a/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod b/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod

--- a/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod
+++ b/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod
@@ -30,29 +30,29 @@ here devoted to that topic|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>.

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Overview
 
AnoNet1
AnoNet2
dn42
VAnet
Claimed Purpose
anonymity to prevent censorship
anonymity to prevent censorship
have fun with BGP
freedom and network efficiency
Claimed Government
nearly none
none
nearly none
backbone only
Actual Government
oligarchy
none
nearly none
backbone only
Actual Government betrays Claimed Purpose
yes
no
no
no
Centralized Critical Infrastructure
wiki (includes resource database), client port, IRC
none
wiki, IRC
all
Decentralized Critical Infrastructure
routing
all
routing, resource database
none
Current Size
20-30
~10
40-50
<5
Average Monthly Growth
~0%
~20%
~5%
~10%
Activity Level
medium
medium
medium
low
Interdarknet Connectivity
censored access to AnoNet2 (must use AnoNet2 DNS), censored access to dn42 (must use AnoNet2 DNS)
full routing to part of AnoNet1, full routing to part of dn42, full routing to VAnet
censored access to AnoNet (1&2, must use SRN's DNS), censored access to VAnet (must use SRN's DNS)
full routing to part of AnoNet1, full routing to AnoNet2, full routing to part of dn42
DNS Coverage
AnoNet1
AnoNet (1&2), dn42, VAnet, IcannNet
dn42, IcannNet
AnoNet (1&2), dn42, VAnet, IcannNet
Peering Prerequisites
OpenVPN, BGP daemon, sustained IRC participation for over a month
OpenVPN or tinc or quicktun, BGP daemon or static routing
OpenVPN, BGP daemon or static routing
depends on individual PoP policy
Services
 
AnoNet1
AnoNet2
dn42
VAnet
Routing
decentralized
decentralized
decentralized
centralized
Resource Database
centralized (part of wiki)
decentralized (part of git-based resdb)
decentralized (part of monotone-based registry)
centralized (ask Borg)
Documentation
centralized (crzydmnd's wiki)
decentralized (part of git-based resdb)
centralized (helios's wiki)
centralized (vanet.org)
Chatroom
centralized (single IRCnet)
decentralized (ad-hoc relaying between IRC and Jabber chatrooms)
semicentralized (single IRCnet, with a Jabber chatroom relay)
decentralized (shared with AnoNet2)
DNS
centralized (from wiki), several official "rootservers"
decentralized (from resdb), each user fields his own, public nameservers available for the lazy
decentralized (from registry), multiple competing deployments
centralized (from svn), centralized official deployment
BitTorrent Trackers/Indexers
none?
1 centralized and 1 decentralized (git-based)
1 centralized
1 centralized
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dn42Z<>
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have fun with BGPZ<>
freedom and network efficiencyZ<>
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nearly noneZ<>
backbone onlyZ<>
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dn42Z<>
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centralizedZ<>
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