Trust Level 1 (Basic User) Requirements

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@MattSafeRussell

it’s asking me to set my registered IP, is this purely for registration purposes?

Yes, it’s necessary to be able to create an account and log in to the Alpha 2 network.

See this dev update for more info:

@maidsafe

Along with the rate limiter, one feature we’re working on this week is to have a form of client whitelist. Without features such as bootstrap cache and scalable proxy nodes, this is intended to help spread the load of clients amongst proxies and also limit the number of clients that are allowed to interact with the same proxies.

@maidsafe

The same system that gives out invitation tokens will also allow you to register your endpoint (IP address) with the network. Once you acquire a token (which can start out purely for forum users and then scale to people without forum accounts), you will also get an option to add yourself to the whitelist. This will assign four proxy nodes from the network and it will flag you as a whitelisted client on those 4 machines. Now when you run client applications, you will be limited to connecting to those 4 machines. Rate Limiter will also restrict a single client from an endpoint per node, this will thereby mean a maximum of four parallel client instances per token would be permitted by the network at any time. For example, if you use the browser and the email app, they will be forced to use 3 different proxy nodes (unregistered client + authenticator from browser and email app). This means you can use up to 2 client apps at a time excluding the browser. Also, for anyone with dynamic IP addresses (most of us), the invitation token system should also allow anyone to update their registered IP with the network.

@MattSafeRussell

I don’t want this to be fixed based on my current location…

You can update your registered IP if you want to connect to Alpha 2 from another location.