BurningbirdThe 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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Okay, I’ll be the first to admit I’m a mood today, but there’s few things that tick me off more than this application of “P2P” to any old technology that comes along. And then this proud standing back as if all is explained. Give me a break. John throws this simple […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. John did respond, in his comments, to my query ,in his comments, about Radio and P2P: I need a real P2P system to pull this off. Something that can go through firewalls and NATs. Unfortunately, most P2P systems are run by people that are only interested in Napster-style file transfer (essentially […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Julian talks about a rant at the de-centralization mailing list at Yahoo. What he says is right on — specifically: There’s another couple of truisms here that “standards are useless without implementations” and so “There are only de-facto standards”. Everything else is just academic (mutual) mind games. If a standard isn’t implemented […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I checked out Circle as well as Chord as P2P networks. These are excellent efforts and should be note to anyone who is interested in P2P systems. As with KaZaA, much of the P2P cloud is transient and located on the peers themselves. The folks at Userland should look at how this can be […]