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sanity | on: Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
If we're doing archaeology, my original 1999 paper was called "A Distributed Decentralized Information Storage and Retrieval System".
cess11 | parent
Fine. Page 6, which is Chapter 2, under the heading Aims, there is a numbered list. What is the second item in this list?
sanity | root | parent
If you have a point to make you should make it.
cess11 | root | parent
I'll quote it then:

   2. It should provide anonymity to b oth providers and consumers of informa-
      tion
sanity | root | parent
And? The new Freenet provides a menu of options for anonymity which is strictly better than imposing the same (imperfect) anonymity solution on everyone.