Hi all, this week I spoke at an academic conference and provided the researchers with my guidelines on how they can make their research work less successful. People liked it and they are already following some of my guidelines. Great so far.
At the end I got a question that I couldn't provide an answer for and I am sure you guys have thought about this already quite a bit. The computer science industry seems to be following trends (or themes) regarding communication architectures. A few years ago (maybe 5 - 7) everyone wanted to design protocols that follow a peer-to-peer paradigm. This working group and others in the IETF are a result of the excitement at that time. For some reason, however, the theme changed and we are now more in a client-to-server thinking (which is what I would call most of the cloud computing concepts). It may change again. So, the question for you who had worked such a long time on this p2p paradigm: What are the reasons for the shift? My guess is that it is a combination of technical difficulties to get the p2p communication systems to work and the attractiveness of the business model for collecting everything on the server-side, i.e. the service provider is much more in control of what is going on (call this a customer binding) and can track the user's service usage. Ciao Hannes _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
