[volunteergrid2-l] Polls closing today

[Shawn Willden]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Jody Harris <jharris at harrisdev.com> wrote:

> Oh, yeah.... I've been thinking about minimum node size changes.
>
> Thoughts:
>   - Unless our policy states that minimum node sizes MUST be adhered to by
> existing members (i.e. mandatory hard drive upgrades), it would be
> unethical to kick members off the grid who were later unable or unwilling
> to upgrade drives.
>   - Nodes currently online would be grandfathered from mandatory upgrades.
>

I think that exempting existing nodes from upgrade requirements is risking
full nodes that become of much less value to the grid.  I would rather make
upgrades mandatory and set the policy change bar high enough that the group
won't approve an upgrade unless there really is near-unanimous support (or
at least acceptance) of it.  But I really don't think there's much
likelihood of someone getting forced off the grid; if someone said "I
really can't upgrade", I think there would be plenty of others who would
vote against the increase rather than force that person off.

BTW, the only node that is not in compliance right now is Steve Dodson's
poppy, and that's a node which Steve is planning to remove from the grid as
soon as he can (he doesn't have remote access to it).  If there were a good
way for Tahoe to block a node from the grid we'd just block poppy now.

(Actually Jody, do you think you could block poppy at your firewall?  If we
could make it impossible for the introducer to see poppy then restart the
introducer and all nodes in the grid, poppy would be removed.
 Alternatively, we could remove poppy by generating a new FURL and
requiring everyone to reconfigure their nodes.  Or we could just wait until
Steve gets it turned off.  It's annoying to have it out there taking shares
which we know are going to disappear soon, but preventing it isn't easy.)


-- 
Shawn
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