BurningbirdJulian started a Usenet thread at comp.distributed (viewable at Google) about the Golden Gateway — how do you find the first node in a P2P network? Without any reliance on any centralized service? Viewing the responses, there is an assumption that entry points have to be known at some point — through a friend or a server or some other […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting doings today with the release of the new Gnutella-based Morpheus preview. For instance, check out the MeFi thread discussing the results. Seems that Gnutella might be feeling the strain just a tad. Still, if Gnutella can handle the load, good on it.
What is going to be the future of connectivity? What is the Brave New World of the Internet going to be? Is it going to be a system of services linked together through one centralized (but benevolent) agency? Need a service? Want to sell a service? Check into the Agency, the Agency will take care […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. And over at John’s the discussion is about the shut down of Morpheus, software based on Fast Track, as is Kazaa. I believe I mentioned this last week that any P2P network that has iron – no matter how minute – in the cloud can be shut down. I will refrain from saying […]
The Don Box discussion about HTTP was a good read with valid points. From a P2P, not a web services perspective, we need to guarantee certain capabilities in P2P services that we take for granted in more traditional client/server environments. This includes the following: Transaction reliability — the old two-phase commit of database technology appears again, but this […]