I'm personally sceptical that any kind of P2P based repository would
work effectively for Maven users.

That said, we'd certainly consider a contribution of a provider to use
it. Given there weren't any responses so far, I suspect that this isn't
a priority for others, but that might change.

I think it would also be essential that appropriate security mechanisms
were first in place to validate the authenticity of the artifacts
downloaded.

The other concern I have is that I suspect you'd need to have Dijjer
running and uploading artifacts. Since a great deal of users are in
corporate envs, this is not going to be realistic.

Cheers,
Brett

Turadg Aleahmad wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Dijjer is a P2P distributed cache of HTTP accessible resources.  I
> recently added a feature to Dijjer to support the Maven checksum scheme
> when downloading.  I thought Dijjer could be used as a way to reduce
> load on Maven repositories.
> 
> The Dijjer network isn't very large yet and so its help is not yet
> significant.  But were Maven to publicize use of Dijjer for downloading
> Maven artifacts, the distribute cache would fill with them and it should
> both reduce load on the repositories and improve client download
> performance.  This could even be accomplished transparently by enhancing
> the Maven downloading code to try downloading via Dijjer if available.
> 
> What do people think?  Please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:ed in any
> replies as I am not subscribed to this mailing list.
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> Turadg
> 
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