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RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
From: "Bora Akyol" <bora () cisco com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:33:55 -0700
I think we need to define what P2P is before we can address this. IMHO, P2P started with NAPSTER, yes before that there was WWW, gopher, ftp, files by email, bitnet, x/y/z modem, bbs (dating myself here), but the large scale bandwidth usage that is seen started with NAPSTER. P2P I would define as distributed file sharing with database like search capabilities. If you define it in this context, the bandwidth characteristics of P2P is a lot closer (but on a higher scale) than the bandwidth characteristics of a traditional web surfer. Hence, ADSL in particular and asymmetric data comm in general hamper P2P. Bora
-----Original Message----- From: Martin J. Levy [mailto:mahtin () mahtin com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:13 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: Bora Akyol; nanog () merit edu Subject: RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Sean,There were lots of FTP mirrors around. Every Sun workstation could have a Anonymous FTP. Ofcourse, the problemwas every Sun workstation could be an Anonymous FTP :-)... but you forgot to mention that filtering and firewalls and NAT were not in common use, hence everywhere was accessible from everywhere. P2P was all there was. Martin
Current thread:
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P, (continued)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Joel Jaeggli (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Fred Baker (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Sean Donelan (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Jeff Wheeler (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Scott A Crosby (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Fred Baker (Aug 30)
- RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Bora Akyol (Aug 30)
- RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Sean Donelan (Aug 30)
- RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Martin J. Levy (Aug 30)
- RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Bora Akyol (Aug 30)
- RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Dave Dennis (Aug 30)
- Definition of P2P (was Feinstein) Bora Akyol (Aug 30)
- Re: Definition of P2P (was Feinstein) Dave Dennis (Aug 30)
- Re: Definition of P2P (was Feinstein) David A. Ulevitch (Aug 30)
- RE: Definition of P2P (was Feinstein) Bora Akyol (Aug 30)
- Re: Definition of P2P (was Feinstein) Rob Nelson (Aug 31)
- Re: Definition of P2P (was Feinstein) Daniel Reed (Aug 30)
- RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Owen DeLong (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Petri Helenius (Aug 31)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 31)