A brief chat with developers of IIP on IIP has revealed they have a new anonymous p2p network in store for us called simply “i2p”. Some of the framework has been posted on “jrand0m’s flog”, a freesite on freenet.
They describe it as the next step in the development of IIP which is an anonymous IRC service that has been running for some time now (http://www.invisiblenet.net).
A brief chat with jrand0m has enabled me to ascertain the program is due for public release in September of this year. i2p is unlikely to be extremely user friendly or fast at first seeing as it is de-centralized like freenet. He mentions he wishes to minimize the amount of hype given to the project as the project is still obviously in development.
Rather than being simply an application like freenet, FROST or Kazaa, i2p is an underlying network layer which is bound to decrease latency, something which was one of the obvious pitfalls of freenet. jrand0m also mentioned they have succesfully created an application to sit on top of the network. The developers aim for
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