[73672] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Fischer)
Tue Aug 31 12:50:49 2004
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:49:20 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Ted Fischer <ted@fred.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0408301840560.22781@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Big Snip ...
>At 07:03 PM 8/30/2004, Sean Donlan postualted:
>Is the problem P2P? Or is the problem copyright infringement?
Thank you, Sean.
What does Peer-to-Peer mean, anyway. Unfortunately, lots of things.
One could argue (I've seen a few replies re this subject hinting around
this definition) that the entire Internet works because of the Peer-to-Peer
concept. After all, if I am on a 100MBs Ethernet and want to communicate
directly with another NIC on MY ethernet, then we must be Peer at Layer 1.
Is the Peer-to-Peer ethernet network a danger?
I would tell her that the benefits of Peer-to-Peer is that this concept
allows us to communicate on networks using computers ... Including allowing
Senator Feinstein to receive E-Mail replies to her question (after all,
isn't SMTP (or X.400 for that matter) Peer-to-Peer at Layer 7?).
Until Senator Feinstein asks a meaningful question, the result will be
GIGO.
Ted Fischer
