[GNUnet-SVN] r1624 - GNUnet-docs/WWW

[grothoff]

Author: grothoff
Date: 2005-08-07 16:05:39 -0700 (Sun, 07 Aug 2005)
New Revision: 1624

Modified:
   GNUnet-docs/WWW/faq.php3
   GNUnet-docs/WWW/protocol_p2p_afs.php3
Log:
patches

Modified: GNUnet-docs/WWW/faq.php3
===================================================================
--- GNUnet-docs/WWW/faq.php3    2005-08-06 21:24:24 UTC (rev 1623)
+++ GNUnet-docs/WWW/faq.php3    2005-08-07 23:05:39 UTC (rev 1624)
@@ -555,8 +555,7 @@
 W("Additionally, directories have two nice properties.");
 W("First, they are immutable, meaning that they can′t be tampered with, 
but contain exactly those pointers the publisher intended.");
 W("The second property is that identical files pointed to by two directories 
waste no additional space, even if the directories were built by separate 
users.");
-W("This contrasts strongly to the case where similar files were archived by
-e.g. zip or rar, which could double the space usage over the network
+W("This contrasts strongly to the case where similar files were archived by 
e.g. zip or tar, which could double the space usage over the network
 without any speedups in retrieval time.");
 W("By using directories to group the content enables GNUnet to spread the 
identical file blocks more efficiently.");
 

Modified: GNUnet-docs/WWW/protocol_p2p_afs.php3
===================================================================
--- GNUnet-docs/WWW/protocol_p2p_afs.php3       2005-08-06 21:24:24 UTC (rev 
1623)
+++ GNUnet-docs/WWW/protocol_p2p_afs.php3       2005-08-07 23:05:39 UTC (rev 
1624)
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 W("The described algorithm is the best we could come up with so far (while 
achieving good anonymity).");
 W("Peers can implement a different algorithm and still be protocol 
compatible.");
 P();
-W("Whenever a peer receives a query, it must make a couple of decisions.");
-W("First, it may decide to just ignore the query.");
+W("Whenever a peer receives a query, it makes a couple of decisions.");
+W("The peer first decides whether to just ignore the query.");
 W("This is done if the local load is far too high, if the query is expired or 
if the query has already been processed recently.");
 W("This first question is among the most difficult.");
 W("GAP uses a time-to-live per query, which is a relative, possibly negative 
lifetime in milliseconds.");
@@ -23,20 +23,20 @@
            "code (routing.c, needsForwarding)"));
 P();
 
-W("Once GAP has decided that a query will be processed, it decides on 
performing a local lookup.");
-W("Potential replies are send back (with a random delay) if the bandwidth 
allocation code permits it.");
+W("Once GAP has decided that a query will be processed, it performs a local 
lookup.");
+W("Potential replies are sent back (with a random delay) if the bandwidth 
allocation code permits it.");
 W("The code then decides on forwarding the query (with decremented 
time-to-live) to a subset of the connected peers.");
 W("At most four peers are selected based on a biased random selection.");
-W("The selection is biased based on the recent number of replies received from 
a peer for queries that originated from the same previous peer as the current 
query.");
+W("The selection is biased towards peers that have recently replied to other 
queries that had the same predecessor as the current query.");
 W("The exact code can be found %s.",
   extlink_("doxygen/html/querymanager_8c.html#a21",
            "here (querymanager.c, forwardQuery)"));
-W("Furthermore, queries are forwarded to other peers if this is possible for 
free.");
-W("Sending queries for free typically happens when the requirement of 
uniform-sized messages leaves enough room for a query (or multiple queries).");
+W("Furthermore, queries may be forwarded to other peers if this is possible 
for free.");
+W("Sending queries for free typically happens when assembling a (uniform size) 
message has sufficient unused room for a query.");
 W("In that case, the bandwidth allocation code polls the %s for possible 
bandwidth-fillers.",
   extlink_("doxygen/html/querymanager_8c.html#a16",
           "query management code (querymanager.c, fillInQuery)"));     
-W("The query management then selects suitable recent queries that were so far 
not forwarded to the peer in question.");
+W("The query management system then selects suitable recent queries that have 
so far not been given to the peer in question.");
 P();
 
 W("If GAP receives a reply, it checks its routing table for a matching 
entry.");
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@
 P();
 
 W("The philosophy of why this should achieve good anonymity is described in 
the %s.",
-  extlink_("download/aff.ps", "gap paper"));
-W("The rationale behind correlating queries from the same predecessor lies in 
the %s which will yield strong correlations between successive queries from the 
same client.",
-  extlink_("download/ecrs.ps", "content encoding"));
+  extlink_("download/aff.ps", "GAP paper"));
+W("The rationale behind correlating queries from the same predecessor lies in 
the %s which will yield correlations between successive queries from the same 
client.",
+  extlink_("download/ecrs.ps", "encoding scheme"));
 
 P();
 W("The GAP protocol defines the following messages:");
@@ -114,4 +114,4 @@
                N("ECRS-encoded data", NBO_()) => 0)));
 
 include("html_footer.php3");
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>