Agreed. It makes it a bit easier to do something like publish your public key and have it available not just when intermittenly online, but somewhat longer. B

Agreed. It makes it a bit easier to do something like publish your public key and have it available not just when intermittenly online, but somewhat longer. Basically it makes it a bit easier to layer your special application on top of the mainline DHT, help your peers find each other, and make it a bit easier to publish some metadata about your peers. That way you can take advantage of millions of nodes in the DHT and not just the ones running your special application. But if you need stronger guarantees or availability those should come from your application, not the mainline DHT.