Peer-to-peer harnessing the benefits of a disruptive technology
The term "peer-to-peer" has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project. Even more interesting than the systems' technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in variou...
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Beijing
O'Reilly
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Authoring is not the same as publishingDecentralization; Abusing port 80; Peer-to-peer prescriptions (2001-?); Technical solutions: Return to the old Internet; Social solutions: Engineer polite behavior; Conclusions; Listening to Napster; Resource-centric addressing for unstable environments; Peer-to-peer is as peer-to-peer does; The veil is pierced; Real solutions to real problems; Who's in and who's out?; Peer-to-peer is a horseless carriage; Follow the users; Users reward simplicity; Listen to Napster; It's the applications, stupid; Decentralization is a tool, not a goal
- The current peer-to-peer meme mapThe new peer-to-peer meme map; File sharing: Napster and successors; Mixing centralization and decentralization: Usenet, email, and IP routing; Maximizing use of far-flung resources: Distributed computation; Immediate information sharing: The new instant messaging services; The writable Web; Web services and content syndication; Peer-to-peer and devices; Strategic positioning and core competencies; The Cornucopia of the Commons; Ways to fill shared databases; CDDB: A case study in how to get a manually created database
- Where's the content?PCs are the dark matter of the Internet; Promiscuous computers; Nothing succeeds like address, or, DNS isn't the only game in town; An explosion of protocols; An economic rather than legal challenge; All you can eat; Yesterday's technology at tomorrow's prices, two days late; 30 million Britney fans does not a revolution make; Peer-to-peer architecture and second-class status; Users as consumers, users as providers; New winners and losers; Remaking the Peer-to-Peer Meme; From business models to meme maps; A success story: From free software to open source
- Preface; Some context and a definition; How this book came into being; Contents of this book; Peer-to-peer web site; We'd like to hear from you; PART ONE; A Network of Peers; A revisionist history of peer-to-peer (1969-1995); Usenet; DNS; The network model of the Internet explosion (1995-1999); The switch to client/server; The breakdown of cooperation; Spam: Uncooperative people; The TCP rate equation: Cooperative protocols; Firewalls, dynamic IP, NAT: The end of the open network; Asymmetric bandwidth; Observations on the current crop of peer-to-peer applications (2000)
- Napster: Harnessing the power of personal selfishnessThe commons; part two; SETI@home; Radio SETI; How SETI@home works; Trials and tribulations; Human factors; The world's most powerful computer; The peer-to-peer paradigm; Jabber; Conversations and peers; Evolving toward the ideal; Jabber is created; The centrality of XML; Pieces of the infrastructure; Identity; Presence; Roster; Architecture; Protocols; Browsing; Conversation management; Conclusion; Mixmaster Remailers; A simple example of remailers; Onion routing; How Type 2 remailers differ from Type 1 remailers; General discussion
- Includes bibliographical references