Alen Peacock wrote:
> On 8/21/07, Alexander Pevzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   I am very curious about how this fits in with the "p2p algorithm"
> problem that Skype is pointing at -- if no client upgrade was needed,
> and since supernodes are clients, this seems to once again indicate
> centralized bottleneck rosources.  I suppose that "classical" p2p
> includes centralized resources (as in napster), and so code running on
> these centralized components could be considered part of the p2p
> algorithm...  or is that too much of a stretch?

Part of the p2p algorithm may be running at server. For example I have
an impression that Skype NAT traversal quality slowly improves over a
time, though I still use the very old 1.2 client for Linux. My client
cannot improve its ability of symmetric NAT prediction - somebody does
it for them.

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