Hi Hannes, If you mean why some parts of the industry are moving from to CS than P2P. Leaving technical difficulties aside, which I agree are one of the reasons, IMO everything boils down to cheap bandwidth and cheap storage. Those two things greatly favor client-server type of systems.
It is also true that companies like to collect as much info as possible, but they could do that while still leaving processing/storage on the client side. At this rate my OS is going to exist just to support the browser, we will be back to mainframe computing :D Ciao! -- Jaime On Jun 1, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > 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
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