Peering

It is all about decisions. Being a peer and just entering a peer to peer network you would start to look for seeds, know how fast these seeds are, what kind of overload they have and how many others have the what they have in case they leave. Those with the rarest parts are the most important to start with, if you get what they have you will keep their parts alive after they leave but you would have to face an increasing demand from other peers to claim what you have got. At some point you would find seeds with fast speed and large chunks idle and nearly newbie peers with the least of parts and even narrowest of pipes under heavy loads and many open connections, this risks losing them, the only peer carriers of seeds rarest parts. A new paradigm has to be adopted, that is, forecasting and expecting how long a seed or a part would survive. So not only you should analyze the speed, share ratio and maximum load each seed or peer have, you also have to track their behaviors, how long do they stay in network, how far did their response and round trips change on an average ping calibration and their replacement rates with other seeds or peers. The decision now is becoming wiser, knowing the overall situation a better understanding of consequences and expectations is achieved. The same is with humans, in human world, we have rare resources either minds, experiences, power sources even chances in life. If we are doing nothing but eating and consuming everything we know and need we will have nothing left and we will ourselves get consumed by our needs and greed. It has to be moderate, calculated and well planned, nothing of what we encounter even if too small or so trivial is random, everything is a result of something that was contributed by someone. The moment you act you change all conditions, as a result all factors are revisited and reevaluated by everyone including you.