Here's an AI-generated, human edited summary of our weekly developer meeting for Freenet, held on April 3, 2024.
Participants:
- Ian Clarke
- Ignacio Duart
Discussion Summary:
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Ignacio's Progress Update:
- Continued work on simulating packet drops in a separate branch, encountering issues with connection robustness between peers but managed to identify and address the problem.
- Identified a new issue with streaming messages during packet drops, which is the current focus.
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Transport Layer and Operations:
- Discussed the transport layer's current status and another branch focusing on protocol integration with transport.
- Ignacio and Hector collaborated on debugging and fixing issues, making significant progress toward operational readiness.
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Connection Establishment and Routing:
- Detailed explanation of the connection operation process, including handling public keys, IP addresses, and port information for peer connections.
- Addressed the handling of gateway-specific behavior and potential modifications to improve connection establishment efficiency.
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Peer Location Strategy:
- Discussed deriving peer locations from their public IP addresses to enhance security and reduce predictability for attackers.
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Joining Network Mechanism:
- Explored the process for new peers to join the network, involving multiple steps and peer communication to establish connections.
- Discussed potential optimizations to reduce the complexity and improve the speed of the joining process.
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Freenet Portal:
- Ian is working on a simple "portal" for Freenet using Dioxus, this will be the first contract users see when they start Freenet. Initially it will just be a manually curated list of links, but eventually it will be a search engine, similar to https://google.com/ homepage.
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Next Steps:
- The goal is to have the network operational and performing useful tasks by the end of April.
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Closing:
- The meeting concluded with a positive outlook on the progress and plans to continue testing and debugging in the upcoming weeks.