Talk:Content addressable network

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Has anyone implemented this on a reasonable scale? Specifically, are there any public file sharing networks that use this?

Not to my knowledge, but see distributed hash table for other DHT designs that are in public use. --Nethgirb 02:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Completely Logical?

Is "Completely Logical" being used as a technical term here? If so, could a definition be provided? If not, could the sense in which it's completely logical be clarified a bit?

I'm not sure if I should be reading it as "It totally makes sense to have a d-dimensional space, even if it doesn't make sense to you" or more like "this d-dimensional space is seperable, not Hausdorff, completely logical, and is isomorphic to..."

Bsradams 01:09, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

I like your first definition best. :-) However, what the author of that text meant is that the the d-dimensional space is completely virtual or abstract: the nodes are not physically arranged according to a d-dimensional space, but each node is given a "virtual location" in that space, and the pattern of overlay links (TCP or UDP connections) is constructed based on the virtual neighborhood of a node. This use of the word "logical" to mean "virtual" (or "it's not the way things physically are, but it's a useful way to reason about them") is fairly common in CS research but I don't know where to find an authoritative definition. You are right that this should be rephrased for the Wikipedia readership. --Nethgirb 02:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Graphics

I think a graphic explanation of a node joining and leaving the network would really help to understand CANs.--Littleant (talk) 13:35, 9 June 2008 (UTC)