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 ```
 trial kademlia
 ```
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+## Fidelity to Original Paper
+The current implementation seeks to be an accurate implementation of all aspects of the paper save one - in Section 2.3 there is the requirement that the original publisher of a key/value republish it every 24 hours.  This library does not do this.
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