Talk:Overlay network

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[edit] Network Overlay or Overlay Network?

I've heard the latter form much more often. I would recommend moving to that form and redirecting from Network Overlay to there. Justification:

• On Google: 6,810 hits for "Network Overlay", 81,400 hits for "Overlay Network". Similar results in Google Scholar.
• NSDI, one of the major networking conferences, uses "Overlay Networks" as the subject matter of one of their tech sessions [1].

Any disagreement? -- Nethgirb 07:28, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] MLdonkey

I think that "MLdonkey" should be removed from the "Network overlay" page, since it's the name of a P2P client, not of a Network overlay (it's listed in an external page because it implements some of the Overnet protocol, that's based on the Kademlia algorithm, that is already listed as network overlay).

To be even more precise, I think there was a project to create a network overlay specific to MLdonkey clients, but as far as I know it never went past the project state, and some dead code in the sources (src/networks/donkey/donkeySupernode.ml,...) (only the main programmer of MLdonkey, could tell for sure: b8_bavard)