[73623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott A Crosby)
Mon Aug 30 16:54:31 2004
To: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Scott A Crosby <scrosby@cs.rice.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:33:00 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20040830182712.9876.qmail@web80513.mail.yahoo.com> (Henry
Linneweh's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:27:12 -0700 (PDT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:27:12 -0700 (PDT), Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> So I would like some professional expert opinion to
> give her on this issue since it will effect the
> copyright inducement bill. Real benefits for
> production and professional usage of this technology.
In my opinion, P2P distribibuted systems are still an active research
area and the more interesting applications aren't out of the academic
research phase yet. Current prototype p2p systems include a
storage-accounted remote backup systems (SCRIVENER) and a webcache
(SQUIRREL). I know of at least two other prototype applications at
Rice that are as yet unpublished.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/SQUIRREL/default.htm
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/Scrivener/default.htm
We won't know how many of these will turn into production systems for
another few years. Of course, if INDUCE passes, then an unknown
portion of this research area would be made legally questionable. Any
consideration such a far-reaching legal change is at the minimum, very
premature.
Scott
