[73651] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bora Akyol)
Mon Aug 30 19:40:57 2004
From: "Bora Akyol" <bora@cisco.com>
To: "'Martin J. Levy'" <mahtin@mahtin.com>,
"'Sean Donelan'" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:33:55 -0700
In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20040830161048.01e2d948@127.0.0.1>
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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. Of
> course, the problem
> >was 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
>
