Hi, Im taking a step back and looking at the real definition of P2P. Shriky in his article (http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/11/24/shirky1-whatisp2p.html) defined P2P as a system that take advantage of computer at the edge of the Internet. Two important properties are: treating temporary/variable connections as norm and nodes have some autonomy.
He explained why Jabber, ICQ and Napster are P2P. I agree. But i am not convinced by his explanation of Email not being P2P!!!: "if you drop AOL in favor of another ISP, your AOL email address disappears as well, because it hangs off DNS". Isn't an email address not much different from your nickname on Jabber, ICQ or any other IM systems ? How about web-based email ? I didn't see any violation of the two properties stated above: users can of course leave the network at will, and he can do anything he wants with his Pc. Please could anyone point out my misunderstanding here. Regards, Anh _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
