Sections replacing Groups

[JPL]

@Toasty

So is the number 32 still correct? I know that a section has on average 8-12 elders. So if my assumption above would be correct, that only elders can be DataManagers and this article quote is still valid, would that mean that data is stored in 3-4 sections?

These numbers are not fixed and the optimum section size is being experimented with, as mentioned in this thread.

@maidsafe

On the Fleming front, we continued to refine our Sybil attacks models. We ran more comparisons between large sections composed mostly of elders and large sections with a smaller number of elders. This confirmed what we observed last week: it appears that large sections with a smaller number of elders can be quite resilient to Sybil attacks. We also started modeling network growth and the split of sections that occur as they become too big. The preliminary results suggest only a moderate impact compared to our previous models. This is positive as it means that we can easily extrapolate from the results we already obtained in constant size networks.