I have been keeping up on the developments of the gdf and am so disapointed with the rate of progress. It is no one persons falt but there really needs to be a system where there is a vote and then it is done. Not comments, voting, comments, more comments ect... Gnutella really has great potential but huge numbers are moving to the kazza system (which I personaly hate).

While on the topic I would like to say that while kazza has great download speeds it has many downfalls that keep me away that gnutella needs to avoid.

The biggest among these is the limit of 100 search results. There is to much crap out there and when you only get 100 results the crap dilutes the good stuff. Making it hard to find what you want. I also hate the interface.

That said, it has some very strong points which gnutella needs to implement immediatly. Fragmented downloads, meta data, meta data search, ect. It is also important for users to be able to share the partial downloads and for auto host searches by file hashes.

There has been talk about super peers with as many as 100-500 connections. This is crazy for most people. BS defender had a good system with 10-20 but I cant imagine more than that. I suggested another level where 10-20 users would connect with one (or two) host and then that host would connect with about 3 hosts. The multiple host connections are for network stability.

I have also suggested dynamic connections and network restucturing based on what you are searching for and where the results are coming from. This would move people with similiar intrests closer to eachother on the network giving ppl better search results ect.

There are many othe great ideas on the BS feature request knowledge base that I suggest all developers take a very close look and and begin implementing.

Keep up the good work. I look forward to some great strides in the near future.

GF