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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Definition of P2P (was Feinstein)
On 2004-08-30T16:33-0700, Bora Akyol wrote: ) I think we need to define what P2P is before we can address this. I don't know that such authority exists. "Peer to peer networking" has existed as a term for a lot longer than your post seems to imply. ) P2P I would define as distributed file sharing with database like search ) capabilities. If you define it in this context, the bandwidth I would be slightly more comfortable with this discussion if it used terminology other than the unqualified "P2P" or "peer to peer" for this meaning. The discussion may forever be plagued by side-discussions about meaning otherwise. -- Daniel Reed <[email protected]> http://people.redhat.com/djr/ http://naim.n.ml.org/ There is a lot of food in a supermarket, too, but a supermarket isn't the best place to hold a dinner party. -- Christopher Faylor
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